Music O'Fiesta 2020 with Meg Mac and Cosmo's Midnight

Another big showcase at the Flinders University O’Fiesta 2020 celebration welcoming new students for the year. This year headlined Meg Mac with incredible groups Cosmo’s Midnight, Alex Lahey, Angie McMahon and Arno Faraji building the excitement.

If you enjoyed these images, check out my photo set from O’Fiesta 2019 featuring The Jungle Giants, Vera Blue, Confidence Man, Japanese Wallpaper and Kira Puru.

Arno Faraji

Angie McMahon

Alex Lahey

Cosmo’s Midnight

Meg Mac

Buy: 'Not Today' Zine including black and white photography and illustration

Not Today is a short 20 page zine made in response to a few days worth of frustrating and incredibly disappointing events that occurred concurrently in February 2020. They also brought up some terrible disappointments from 2019, which took an emotional and financial toll (from which I recovered, mind you).

I have started to journal more regularly as a way of keeping track of my photographic work in a physical record. It is easy to produce photographic work but often it never leaves the screen and I feel that images find their life in paper. It’s part of the reason the Australian Institute of Professional Photography hold a print awards for their professional certifications.

To create Not Today, I selected at random a number of favourite film photographs I’ve shot then printed them with my lovely Epson P800 Inkjet printer. I realised a few pages in that I didn’t want everything to be black and white, so I also experimented printing on alternative media—old pink and red creative paper stock for collage that I had lying around. The colour was gorgeous and it provided a different texture to the high-quality archival paper I’d used for the other images.

I cut, tore, shredded and splattered them with my signature letterforms—the expressive brushstrokes help relieve tension, the inked line releasing pent-up energy. The thoughts were free-flowing and I was unconcerned with how they’d be interpreted. The pages themselves were created on A3 sheets of cartridge paper folded into quarters, providing a loose guide for the A5 pages I wanted. When the ink dried, I cut these A3 sheets down to A4 and scanned them. Some of the spreads are these whole A4 sheets, others are the A4 pages reduced to A5 and laid side-by-side.

The final layout of the book reinterprets the original meaning behind each pages physical creation, bonded with a narrative of overlaid type.

Some of the original photographs contributing to the zine are posted below, in addition to more spreads from the book.

Not Today zine is available in my store for $10 + postage within Australia.

Not Today zine is limited to 25 signed editions with a randomly inserted photograph printed on cotton rag.

Stills: City of Adelaide – City Living

Adelaide is an incredibly beautiful city to live in. Australia’s best food and wine with the heart of a small city. The hills and beach just 20 minutes from the city centre on a good day—heck, you could cycle from hills to beach if you really wanted to. Make the best of things. Make a home in the thick of it—affordable new apartments and old townhouses abound with options for all lifestyles.

Working with director Joho Lyons-Reid and Director of Photography Michael Tessari, I had the pleasure of capturing stills on the City of Adelaide’s latest City Living campaign, featuring an incredible cast and crew. Can’t wait to spot these images in the wild.

• Director Joho Lyons-Reid

• DOP Michael Tessari

• Camera Assistant Bec Taylor

• Make Up Ally Pacor

• Gaffer Slavi Gaitt

• Stylist Erin Scammell

• Script / Assistant Heath Nash

• Client Tania De Masi / City of Adelaide

New apartments cater for all lifestyles, welcoming early-morning risers and retirees making the most of a smaller footprint in the inner-city.

The Adelaide Central Markets are the best place to grab a quick coffee and lunch before grabbing the groceries. Lucias for lunch? Always.

Adelaide is surrounded on all sides—North, South, East and West—by parklands which keep the city cool and the air fresh while providing a noise buffer to suburban residents. Also the perfect place to practice meditation in the afternoon light.

Adelaide, City of Dogs. Let them love you.

There’s no better city to cycle than Adelaide, with a flat profile from the sea to the foothills and new bicycle lanes and through-ways. Two wheels is the only way to get around, well, besides two feet of course.

The markets provide more than just fresh fruit and vegetables, with flower shops, the oldest camera store in Australia, book shops and more. Make the most of it.

Gorgeous apartments with super-fast Internet provide a great living and work environment.

Small bars and cafes fill the laneways providing a great place to stop by for a drink before, or after, a show at the Adelaide Festival Centre or a game at the Adelaide Oval.

Wake up ready to face the world in a new apartment.

And sign off a long day with a great drink with friends. Adelaide’s the place to be.

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City of Adelaide: City Living film by Director Joho Lyons-Reid and Director of Photography Michael Tessari, with additional credits at the top of this article.

Cityscape: Adelaide Walking Tours (mobile phonography)

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This week was a private photo tutor session with a woman recently moved to Adelaide from Mumbai with her partner. She long-loved photography with no formal training and wanted to understand how to better “click”* with her mobile phone camera. We took a leisurely three hour walk around the Riverbank Precinct and through the Botanic Gardens, where she enjoyed seeing new flowers and flora for the first time—great new places to share with her partner and young son.

I had some time to click a few abstract images with my Samsung Galaxy S8 and edited on phone with Snapseed.

If you’re interested in learning more about photography and your camera please visit https://www.alfonso.com.au/adelaide-photography-courses and make a booking.

* Indian’s often say “click” instead of “snap” or “shoot” when discussing the taking of a picture. I first noticed this while documenting the Jaipur Literary Festival for the Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival.