Vieux Farka Touré live album cover
Back in January i photographed Summer Sounds in the Domain for Sydney Festival, which featured Malian musician Vieux Farka Touré. Some weeks after the gig, his label got in touch asking to buy the image for a live album he was releasing. And now it’s coming out. On pre-order at Amazon.
Sydney Festival 2010
I love Sydney in January. There’s that post-holiday glow that still remains, the exceptional beach weather (between torrential downpours), and then there’s the festivals and gigs. One of the great pleasures of my job is getting to photograph those festivals, the biggest and most diverse of which is Sydney Festival. I love it because i [...]
Sydney Festival 2009 in photos
A month late, but here’s the final lot of my photos from Sydney Festival. First up is Festival First Night, featuring Grace Jones, Santogold (before she became Santigold) and Busy P DJing plus loads more i didn’t see. It’s always one of the highlights of the festival; it’s free and takes over the city with [...]
A soundcheck with St Vincent
During the Sydney Festival one the great pleasures for me was photographing St Vincent‘s soundcheck in the Famous Spiegeltent. Just me and one other photographer treated to a private performance of four songs. I didn’t even take many pictures, just sat back and watched. Shoot The Player did one of their lovely videos with her [...]
A Forest inside Sydney Opera House
As part of the Biennale of Sydney last week there was an incredible installation inside the Sydney Opera House. French artist Pierre Huyghe (pictured above) transformed the concert hall floor into a forest for 24 hours. He called the work A Forest of Lines. Hundreds of trees were brought in, the lights were dimmed and [...]