Sean Fennessy | Photographer
The Monthly + music stuff
I’ve posted before about Go Betweens co-founder turned music critic Robert Forster so it’s was a pleasant surprise to get a call from The Monthly asking for some of my pics to go with an article Forster penned on the Tassie music scene (specifically the “Community” compilation recently released by Rough Skies Records)
Sadly the article is not available online yet, but see the tearsheets here: page 1, page 2
They published two photos:
In related news, it was also cool to see my pic of Paint Your Golden Face used to promote their new album.
This pic is also the cover of the album. Woot
Pura campaign shoot
Late last year I was contacted by Sydney super-agency BMF to do a shoot for Pura milk.
It was a slightly controversial topic at the time but it was hard to say no to the opportunity to work for such a great agency (I love their La^mb stuff).
Here’s how it appeared in print:
I did another shoot for BMF a couple of weeks ago, so I’ll post that when I can.
Recent stuff
Some of my shots from last years Taste Festival are being used in the branding for this years event:
In the booklet, on the website and on a big shipping container / billboard.
The graphic design for the Taste is the work of the cool dudes at Futago.
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The lineup for next month’s MONA FOMA has just been announced (Grandmaster Flash, The Dirty Three, John Cale (!) and heaps more) and a few of my images from the inaugural event earlier this year are being used.
The bottom pic is from a slick new booklet promoting the very exciting MONA complex which is currently being built in Hobart.
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Also noticed this billboard in the city this morning with my shots from another campaign I just shot with Clemenger for The Mercury.
We shot three different scenarios and I guess the others will be going up soon.
shooting a chef
Recently I was commissioned by Clemenger to take some shots for a campaign for Point Restaurant.
The brief was to take a series of dark, atmospheric portraits of the Chef de Cuisine.
Behind the scenes: Heaps of light coming in from the right, plus two snooted strobes at the back for separation on the chef and a for a small highlight on the table in the background. I also had my big reflector clamped to a stand at the left to stop any light bouncing back onto the dark side of his face.
How it appeared in press ads
Artichoke
My Bay of Fires pics have surfaced in the pages of posh design/architecture magazine Artichoke.
The article was written by Artichoke’s editor, the lovely Kate Rhodes, who tagged along on the Design Island Workshop.
