The line outside Enmore Theatre snaked along the street, filling Enmore Road with Sydney's youth, ready for Alison Wonderland. As Manu Crooks took the stage to warm up the crowd, the venue was packed from wall-to-wall. Jumping around the stage with a crazy energy, Manu played a collection of hard hitting originals such as ‘Everyday’ and fan favourites like ‘Day Ones’.
Read moreOutput on Film
Music festivals have become the core and lifeblood of the Australian summer. While a focus is predominantly placed on the musical talent that graces stages the nation over, it is important to stop and pay homage to the true backbone of any music festival: its attendees.
Read moreGRAACE – Self Sabotage EP Launch
Since the moment of meeting Grace Pitts, I always knew she would go on to do amazing things in music. In the past few years, under the moniker GRAACE, Grace has gone on to achieve milestone after milestone.
Read morePleasure in motion
When attending a festival, or really any place where there is music and people are dancing, there’s a special emotion that comes to life. As festival morph into mega events with huge budgets, sometimes it pays to return to the simple ingredients that make it all sparkle.
Read moreFinding the In-Between
Japan is a kaleidoscope of ancient traditions dancing with modernity. Returning to the images I shot while there, there is a fine balance between the long-lasting history and the rapid embrace of the new. Unfolding out of the landscape is a reminder of the practices of the past and now, becoming one with it, are the dense, urban city scapes which have become a world of their own. It is the interplay between the two which ultimately becomes so enrapturing.
Read moreLooking for Ansel
The series documents my first journey to Yosemite National Park, a setting that I've become quite familiar with through the countless years that it has been the default Mac desktop picture, but I've never actually visited.
Read moreThis That Digital
Walking into This That, it was hard not to notice the impressive squadron of food trucks and the entertainment quarter with its own barber stand which populated the expansive field often used as stomping grounds for various sports. From the word (GO)DLANDS, THIS THAT invited you to cheer loud and dance hard, not so different to a standard sports weekend.
Read moreThis That Film
The light, the grain, the texture. Captured through the lens of our cameras, This That festival appears rich with sweat, smoke and colour. Bringing the energy and heat were Nyxen and All Day with Amy Shark doing what she does best, igniting festival stages across Australia
Read moreChasing Stillness in Japan
“It seems like Japan is everywhere in recent times. Maybe it’s just me. But after finally pulling the trigger and going it’s safe to say that I get it now. The people are incredibly nice and clean, the food is amazing, and everything is out of this world batshit crazy.
Read moreNikon Photo Contest 2018-2019
Change, identity and hope. Summing up 2018 in three words are the categories for this year’s Nikon Photo Contest.
Read moreA Town within a City
The feeling in The Jordaan is that of a town within a city, both familiar and overwhelming. Tucked just to the west of central Amsterdam, the quarter has the hubbub of a big city but the serenity of a village.
Read moreThe Finalists of the Sunstudios Emerging Photographer Award 2018
Sunstudios will this week announce the winner of its tenth annual Emerging Photographer award. With an aim to proper the best of Australia’s younger photographers, the award is a launching board for future photographic success.
Read moreFirst on Film
While the memories might have faded, the image remains. To start off our roll of the Week series we take a look back on the weekend that Backyard Opera was transported to North Byron Parklands for the eighteenth instalment of Splendour in The Grass.
Read moreFlight Facilities at Enmore Theatre, August 24
You know that thing that happens when you rub your eyes too much? Bright colours and a sparkly sense of vision? Well, for me, that’s Flight Facilities, a band that plays the aural accompaniment to a kaleidoscopic animation – a harmony between vision and sound that is out of this world and indescribable.
Read moreFeature: Olivia Repaci
My main draw to photography is the profound sense of gratification I get from capturing the perfect moment, the best angle, a beautiful stroke of light.
Read moreFeature: Mars Alek
Born in Iran, I grew up interested in the fascinating world that surrounded me. The colours, the smells, the culture, the intensity. I was moved at a young age to capture what I saw through my lens.
Read moreInterview: Ryan Roake
People. People really inspired me to start shooting. I had a fascination with faces, expressions and different types of beauty. I started off with an old school camera, taking fun pictures at parties and social events.
Read moreHamish Campbell: Aogashima - life among the twin calderas
This selection of work by Japan-based photographer Hamish Campbell forms a part of his collection Aogashima - life among the twin calderas.
Read moreReview: One Camera, Two Lands – Z Axis
What can photography do? Of a myriad of questions that has surrounded the practice of photography, two exhibitions at this year’s Head On Photo Festival reveal the importance of asking this question once again.
Read moreInterview: Lenni Mattanja
Backyard Opera's photography director, Lenni Mattanja chats about her philosophy behind her images.
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