Sean Fennessy | Photographer

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.