Sean Fennessy | Photographer

power hip hop

Preview of some shots I did for a cool collaboration between some local hip-hoppers and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

The project is being coordinated by Kickstart Arts and culminates in a series of live performances later in the year.

Billy Whims

Some new shots for folksy singer-songwriter Billy Whims.

This one is my favourite I think. Bit of a Where The Wild Things Are vibe.

Behind the scenes with Jess on reflector duties.

recent tearsheets

A couple of my shots of furniture designer David Trubridge are in the current issue of Dumbo Feather. These were taken while I was at Bay of Fires earlier in the year. (See the original pics here.) I love what they’ve done with the opening pic.

A Fine Line used this shot of The Scandal on the cover of their winter issue.

The mag was originally designed by Hammer & Tong, but I’ve got a feeling they’re not doing it anymore which is a pity because it was looking pretty slick. I’m not really happy with the crop or the print quality of this one (see the original here)

ivy st.

Ivy St needed some new promo shots. This is what we did:

These are probably the least flattering photos I’ve ever taken. But hopefully they stand out against the constantly recurring band shot cliches and air-brushed posing that seems to be standard in music photography (see some funny examples here)

Ivy St are a great band doing some exciting things. They were snapped up by Wireless Records after a recent gig in Melbourne and they’ll be putting out their debut album in September, followed by a national tour and even some gigs in New Zealand.

shooting the premier

Well it’s not quite in the league of Ben Baker and the 20 magazine covers he got out of one shoot with Obama, but it was cool to see my pic of Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett on the front of Alumni magazine.

I was determined to take him out of his office so while the journalist was doing the interview I did a bit of a recce with the security guy and we found our way onto the roof.

Initially I thought it would be cool to shoot him on white seamless, ala Platon’s famous politician portraits, and although that didn’t happen in the end I was happy to get this extra shot indoors which is easily my favourite of the shoot.

I think it adds nicely to this shot I took of former Premier Paul Lennon a few years ago.