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Check out some of my recent work, and my essays on Photographing The Arts!

Photographing The Arts: A Chorus Line (2020/2022)

Recently it was the 50th anniversary of A Chorus Line, the famous musical based on actual stories from performers working in the industry, their lives, their fears, and the challenges of getting that job and then actually DOING that job.

I photographed the Darlinghurst Theatre Company production in 2020—having flown back from my father’s funeral in Canada to be in Sydney for the dress rehearsal, only for the borders to close and theatres shut down just in time for their opening night—and again in 2021 when the show actually managed to happen, with an almost entirely different cast than the first version I’d seen a year or so earlier…

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Photographing the arts: embracing uncertainty

“When I look back at how I got to where I am now, the one through-line that carries on is always theatre. For me, that’s been the great love/obsession of my working life, and so everything I’ve donesince high school, basicallyhas been about finding my place in that community.”

A couple of years ago, I was interviewed by the wonderful performer Jennifer Trijo (who I met working on Once, and is currently in Hadestown) for her blog about careers in the arts which is, sadly, no longer online. I always intended to republish it here at some stage, as I thought we had a really great conversation about building a career in the performing arts.

So, with her permission, here’s the article she wrote at the time…

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