collaborations

One thing leads to another.

18-December-2009

Occasionally we get lucky breaks. When I first came back to Brisbane one of our new neighbors was a jazz trombonist. He asked us along to see him perform at the Jazz Club one Sunday night. I took my camera along and took some shots. The singer Melissa Western, happened to be beautiful as well as a good singer. I emailed her some pix not realising she was also part of the marketing team at the Queensland Theatre Co. and they were after some rehearsal photographs. Since then every month or so I have been invited in to witness people gathering to discuss big ideas and portray life in all its guises, I couldn’t have asked for more.My first gig was photographing “The Lonesome West” by Martin Mc Donagh and directed by Jon Halpin. It is a story of anger, frustration, cruelty and pain and made for riveting albeit awkward experience. Gallows humor deserves a wry smile at best and it was surprising when I got to see the production how some of the audience guffawed at the blackness, …maybe it’s just me.

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