Innehållsförteckning för Nov/Dec/Jan 2023 från Capture

This past year has seen many photographers going from one extreme to the other. As COVID restrictions lifted there was an explosion of weddings needing photographers. Melbourne’s Ashley Karakatsanis thrived in this new climate. “I'm busier than I’ve ever been. I’m getting three to four times the number of enquiries and bookings compared to before. I’m also getting an insane number of last-minute bookings. It’s good, and I’m not complaining at all,” she says. Other wedding photographers like Katie Harmsworth, also based in Melbourne, have found adjusting to the changed market more challenging. She says that navigating lockdowns and two years of wedding postponements has been the biggest challenge to the industry to date. “The last twelve months has seen most wedding photographers shooting and working seven days a week,…

1 GERRY LE ROUX A landscape of old skin. An imaginary landscape – an exploration of the hills and valleys making up the surface of the human body. 2 MOHAMMAD DADSETAN Tower Grapher. 3 BELINDA RICHARDS The Frenchie Open. 4 KRISTOFFER PAULSEN GRANA. Still life of cheese, for the deli in East Brunswick, Grana. Styling: Julie Haines. Shot for Figlia, East Brunswick. 5 JASON IERACE Sophia 01. Experimental beauty. 6 BENJAMIN COLE Rise. This works looks to abstractly express the moments of hope and relief experienced as Australia lifted restrictions and lockdown, pulling itself out and rising free from the dark period of the COVID landscape. 1 NICKY HAMILTON Ice Scream. This image was created to raise awareness of global warming and climate change by capturing the essence of a…

1 SIMON WOOD Harvest. A Black Falcon inspecting the harvest. 2 RUSSELL ORD Bird’s Eye View. The colours and textures of the ocean as surfer Kalani Ord navigates through the lumps and bumps. 3 TONY HEWITT Golden. A meandering run-out tide is complemented by the sunset light which reflects off the subtle ripples on the calm waters of eastern Shark Bay, WA. 4 DAVID DAHLENBURG Why? The leftover toxic by-products from mining operations in Australia’s vast outback. 5 DANI WATSON The Brain. “Located at Lake Eyre, ‘the brain’ is one of the most incredible landscapes I have ever seen.” 1 TANIA MALKIN Ocean Life. Tidal flow of a remote reef in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, Northern Territory. Taken from a Robinson R44 helicopter at 2,400 feet. 2 KISHORE DAS Lotus…

1 WILLIAM LONG Office Kitchen. Client: GPT Group. 2 DAVID CHATFIELD Els Comellars (1991) by architects John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin. Mallorca, Spain. 3 LYNTON CRABB Voyager Project. Image to support the sales material of a residential tower. Client: Mirvac. 4 STEVE DAY The Tate Modern gallery, London. 5 GEORGE APOSTOLIDIS The Pavilion at Silky Oaks Lodge, Mossman, Far North Queensland. Client: Bailie Lodges. Creative Director: Alison Richards. Retoucher: David Thomas. 1 NURLAN TAHIRLI Heydar Aliyev Center on a rainy day. Baku, Azerbaijan. 2 JUTTA CLOUGH The Peaks. An interesting Surfers Paradise high-rise building at ninety degrees of difference. 3 SCOTT BURROWS Curvacious. Sensual curves of the building reflect the local Norfolk Island pine tree’s botanical structures. Client: Koichi Takada Architects. SPONSORED BY…

The CMO Survey early in the year indicated that 2022 budgets would be spent 56% in online channels and 44% offline. Television and radio captured some of that nearly 50-50 split. Out-of-home (OOH) advertising grew for an obvious reason; people were out and about again, and they did it with gusto. Interest in print and press advertising showed some growth after years of decline, perhaps because the digital world has become overloaded. Brands need to stand out. The shift, though, has been subtle. Social media advertising still dominates and the pool of physical magazines and papers has declined since world’s “great culling”. Maybe though, it’s the start of something bigger? Traditional print advertising photographers like John Huet have hardly noticed the change. “Advertising was starting to change before the pandemic.…

1 CHARMAINE LYONS ​Kathleen – artist/activist, from the series, Artists of the Atelier. 2 KRISTOFFER PAULSEN Paul Kelly for Good Weekend Magazine. “My first studio portrait coming out of Victorian Stage 4 lockdown (which was an extremely emotional experience), to accompany a piece about Paul’s enduring appeal.” Commissioning Photo Editor: Tegan Sadlier. Art Director: Tim Beor. 3 SIMON HARSENT Portrait of artist John Olsen. 4 AMBER BOTTERILL Monochromatic You. Expressionism in black and white. 5 KRISTIAN GEHRADTE Shot for the production of Because the Night, at the Malthouse Theatre. CD & AD: Davey Simmons. Retouching: Gabrielle Hughes. 6 ILANA ROSE Lawrence Mooney. The bad boy, the family man, comedian, actor, writer, and star of radio and television, he is a self-confessed subversive; irreverent with a garnish of delicious dollops of…

1 PAULA BRONSTEIN A man stares at the beauty of a rainbow after April showers followed by sunshine, creating a rainbow over a destroyed apartment building, heavily damaged by aerial bombardment. Borodyanka, Ukraine. 2 NINA TBERG Waiting for visitors. Limited summer fun during a pandemic. 3 JANUSZ JUREK Rest. Crete, Greece. 4 CHRISTINE GOERNER Blokes and Sheilas. The facilities at an abandoned roadhouse take us back a few decades, exploring architecture, typography, and classic Aussie slang once used in the mining town of Iron Knob, South Australia. 5 JOHN JANSON-MOORE The Cane Croppers. Two teenaged cane croppers, Tyson (14) and Blaze (17), stare out over burning fields of sugarcane at the end of season’s harvest, just outside the small town of Mossman, in Far North Queensland, Australia. 1 LISA MAREE…

1 JASON IERACE Swedish summer days. A bunch of kids enjoying the Swedish summer weather. 2 MIEKE BOYNTON Out in the Cold. Winter bites hard at Blowhard Hut, Mount Hotham, Victoria. 3 LAWRENCE FURZEY Mungo Storm. “While standing in the sand dunes of Mungo National Park, NSW, and watching this storm passing over the barren outback, I couldn’t help but think that the spirits of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady were at work here.” 4 JARL LINE Whisky Bay. A cold, wet, and windy day at Squeaky Beach, Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia. 5 DAVID ROSENDALE Falls Creek #96. From ongoing study of Falls Creek in Victoria, The Fall, focusing on seasonal change, winter metamorphosis, and graphical compositions within the alpine landscape. 1 STEVE DAY Serpent. The William Barak Bridge stretching…

Editorial photography took a significant hit during COVID and has been slower to recover than its advertising sibling. This is partly due to the famed “democratisation of photography” with work spread over a wider range of photographers and especially so in fashion and documentary photography, where discovering new talent has become a trend. The report, State of Photography 2022, by Tara Pixley, Martin Smith-Rodden, David Campbell, and Adrian Hadland, found that 55% of respondents globally were supplementing their income with something other than photography and more than half indicating that they now carry a “great deal” to a “moderate” amount of debt. Female photographers have been especially affected. Close to a third reported a significant loss of income. 80% of the photographers who participated in the survey have been in…

1 JONATHAN MAY Your Life, plus Army Reserve Client: Defence Force Recruiting (DFR) Agency: VMLY&R ECD: Jake Barrow AD: Bryce Waters Retouching: Limehouse 2 SACHA STEJKO Fight for fair Client: 2 Degrees AD: Ashley Wilding, Daniel Davison Retoucher: Tammy White 3 VAUGHAN BROOKFIELD Welcome Home Client: Queenstown Airport 4 ISAMU SAWA Trackside House at Moonee Valley Park Client: Hamton Property Group Agency: Savi Communications CD: Jonathan Wybrow Floral Stylist: Basia Puchalski 5 HARRY ROTH Moccona X Cadbury Client: Jacobs Douwe Egberts Agency: Edge ECD: Simon Langley Senior AD: James Gillespie CGI: Limehouse 1 CHRIS HILLARY Bomb Squad, from the Racing BS 2022 campaign Client: SportsBet CD: Rambo Goraya AD: Christophe Rivet, Joshua Close 2 STEVE GREENAWAY My Daily Life Client: Arcstream Agency: Uberbrand ECD: Matt Grogan 3 SACHA STEJKO Be…

1 MELISSA CRISA Nightfall. “This was the last wedding of the season and the cool autumn evening did not disappoint. As blue hour set in, the fairy floss skies lit up, just before nightfall.” 2 AMANDA ALESSI Proud Dad. Laura’s dad feeling all the emotions pre-ceremony. 3 JAMIE MURCUTT Sol Sails. 4 JACOB GORDON The first dance. The bride and groom during their first dance as a guest sings karaoke. 5 LEO FARRELL Clifftop Walk. Clifftop wanderings with Kasey and Walt at Flinders. 1 JARROD VERO Entry Only. The bride and groom enter the reception. 2 MAURO CANTELMI Love is love. “I wanted to show love had no boundaries, but in today’s society it could still be opaque.” Retoucher: Jason Cmrlec. 3 JACOB GORDON A moody portrait. A portrait created…

1 LUKE DAVID Old Hill St Police Station. Covered in over 900 windows painted in colours of the rainbow, the building in Singapore was vacated by the police in the 1980s. 2 MICHELLE FERREIRA From the series, Eco-empathy. 3 KATHERINE JENKINS Quirky and awkward, humans and their pets, from the series, Pets in Space. 4 MELINA KELSEY Long and Winding Road. Jostedalsbreen National Park, Norway. 5 CAMERON MEACHAM The Dream of Being a Rockstar. Self-portrait. 6 PAUL FISHER Cacti with doorbell, from the series, Abstract everyday. 7 LAURA ROTH Great Expectations. “Taking the theme of islands as its starting point, this image traces a broad arc from paradisiacal expectations of island living to tourism in times of the climate crisis. How could island life – which we always associate with a…