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Four Photographers

10-February-2010

 

Ten years ago when I started shooting weddings around Byron Bay there were 3 other photographers putting their hands up for that work (digital photography and the internet has since unleashed a tsunami of contenders and there is now about 40 in the same area).
Greg Mace was numero uno back then and was getting opportunistic shots on film that most still can’t get with the luxury of digital equipment. Greg’s approach is down to earth photojournalism and he doesn’t rely on photoshop to “make” his images. They are of the “what you see is what you get” variety which appeals hugely to me. We have become good mates and he’s still floating on a rising flood of new contenders.
 
Three years ago I had a potential client book with another photographer. For me that’s a no lose situation. If I don’t like the photographers work I think oh well they weren’t my type of client anyway , and if I do like the work I think at least I didn’t lose out to a dud. That particular time it was Todd Hunter McGaw.
I looked Todd up on the internet and saw someone who wasn’t into cookie cutter shooting. His (and his wife Alyda’s) work is witty, intelligent and beautiful, but more importantly authentic. A bit like Todd and Alyda themselves, although Alyda is in my opinion is slightly more beautiful than Todd.
 
Lizzy Sawdon lives in northern Queensland and quietly does her work. The big thing for me is much of her work wants to cut through the bunk that sits over nearly everything, and which photography in the wrong hands perpetuates. This gives her a great photo-doco eye.
 
I can’t say much about Jonas Peterson that hasn’t already been said, I’ll spare you the wow’s, OMG’s, the awesomes, and the blah about tilt shift, he gets platitudes like
that daily by the dozen. He seemed to come out of nowhere in 2009 and is now a worldwide phenomenon. I found out about him the same way as with Todd less than a year ago. When I heard his name I thought who? His blog set my mind on fire (I’m one of many). The way he used the internet to communicate was a revelation. His unfailing aesthetic sense and sublime writing both show humour and beauty as well as the occasional acknowledgement of pain and melancholy. It gives his work a maturity and completeness that lifts it above the one dimensional stuff often held up as great photography especially within the wedding industry.
In one way or other I owe these photographers, there are others but first things first.

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