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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Mardi Gras Harbour Party
Another major event of Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival and the last key party before the final Mardi Gras Dance Party rolls in, Mardi Gras Harbour Party, Sol Y Luna.
The simple concept is just having fun while watching the sunset in Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens with Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House in the background. Moreover, it is special this year when two cruise liners, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth 2, rendezvous. And this is the last time that QE2 cruises in the Harbour before her retirement.
Plunging 
Behind the Fence 
Duckman 
Secure Line 
Roadie 
Cop 
Tribal Look 
Scene of the Queen 
On Board 
Fabulous Red 
Shady Man 
Lips 
Cocktail 
Sunset Dance Floor 
Mosaic 
Intimacy 
Reptile 
Enlightenment 
Couple 
Lei 
Threesome 
Pride 
Trance 
Sunset Inferno
6 February 2008
Tupper Street, Enmore
11 February 2008
Tupper Street, Enmore
5 February 2008
Stanmore Road, Stanmore
11 and 14 January 2008
Belmore Lane, Enmore
11 January 2008
14 January 2008
My Sydney Now Finalist
Pink Force – Pink Poodle and trash on the ground in the morning after at Sleaze Ball 2007.
Here comes the next great news for me from the small slide show at Australian Centre for Photography when this image is the finalist of My Sydney Now Competition. It does not get to the top three but gives the fantastic feeling to get recognised. Along with the winners and other finalist, it is exhibited at the Museum of Sydney until 27 April.
1-2 February 2008
Cambridge Street, Stanmore
1 February 2008, Morning
1 February 2008, Afternoon
Road work in progress
2 February 2008, The Day After
Mardi Gras: the Slide Show 2007 Retrospective
George Bush impersonation at Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade 2007
It is my little dream comes true to have my works exhibited at Australian Centre for Photography even though it is just a part of the slide show of Mardi Gras: the Slide Show last year. Quote from the press release:
Last Mardi Gras season, a group of budding photographers drawn from Sydney College of the Arts and the Sydney Photobloggers group (who reside at flickr.com) were brought together by Robert McGrath of MG Photographic with the aim of capturing the originality and exuberance of Sydney’s Mardi Gras season.
Morgan Carpenter says that my photos have changed over the year. It is essential to explore retrospectively on your own works to see how it has shaped in a period of time. This small exhibition gives me a chance to look back at myself and I start having a flashback.
Late 2006 I suffered from a drawback feeling. Things went not too well on the year for all sorts of reasons. And I found that that my photography was stale, especially in the contents. So I decided to have a theme to focus on. The idea was to capture Sydney’s diversity through its community events and celebrations.
I was looking at Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras to kick off the concept. Fortunately, Mardi Gras: the Slide Show was looking for a handful of photographers via Sydney Photobloggers Group for the project. My Fair Day series impressed the producer, Robert McGrath and got me in.
Best of all, this art project gave the photographers their own space to express the creativities. The event pushed my limits technically and creatively as I tried to approach it different ways from what I saw Mardi Gras photographs and from my own comfort zone. The day after I was still exhausted mentally and physically. The award from the project was just an extra, the experience that I could share to the larger audience and got me this far was the real deal.
Damien Eames, Head of Brand and Creative Strategy at Mardi Gras says.
For the first time I feel we have a body of work that can convey the complex magic of Mardi Gras to those who’ve never experienced it directly.
The Slide Show is presented at Video Lounge, Australian Centre for Photography until 8 March.