150 Locals for Glebe

The end of October saw the start of an exciting new exhibition - a collaboration between our own North Sullivan and portrait photographer Tom Psomotragos. North and Tom, as respected artists as well as proud Glebe residents, were approached by the Glebe Chamber of Commerce to commemorate the suburb's 150th birthday. They hit on the idea to do this through 150 portraits of locals, displayed throughout Glebe both inside and out.

The range of photographs reflect the vibrancy and diversity of the suburb, with the portrait subjects ranging from artist and musician Reg Mombassa (top) to Sister Xavier from Saint Scholastica's College (above) and local personality Mitch the Bike Man (below). The portraits were printed on large canvasses and displayed at nearly sixty locations throughout Glebe, including public parks and spaces, cafes, and building facades. Over one hundred of the portraits will be displayed outside throughout Glebe, transforming the suburb into an outdoor art gallery for the month.

150 Locals will run from October 24 to November 28, so if you haven't seen it yet, make sure you head to Glebe to check it out. You can download the official map from the Glebe website. This exhibition was created not only to celebrate the suburb's 150th birthday, but also to kick off the Glebe Chamber of Commerce's new initiative - the Grand Tour Gallery. The idea is to take art out of the galleries and onto the streets, providing a forum for Australian photographers to showcase their work and allowing people to view great photography outside of a conventional setting.

North and Tom began shooting for the project last December, and although it has taken almost a year to come to fruition, North is very happy with the results. 150 Locals was launched here at the Photo Studio on October 22. The studio was packed out with an eclectic mix of Glebe locals and photography fans, here to view portraits, including those of artist John Ogburn (below) and pianist Bridie King (above), who performed on the evening.

The evening was a great success, and we look forward to seeing what the Glebe Chamber of Commerce cooks up for the Grand Tour Gallery in the future. In the meantime, 150 Locals will continue exhibiting throughout Glebe until the 28th of November, so if you have a chance you should definitely check it out for yourself.

2009 Sydney Women's Expo

Well as usual, the Photo Studio has had an action packed week, with portraits, the Women's Expo, and the grand launch of North Sullivan and Tom Psomotragos' exciting 150 Locals series for Glebe. But more on that next time.
We were excited to spend the weekend at the Women's Expo at Sydney Olympic Park, which ran from the 23rd to the 25th of October. The Women's Expo is dedicated to the needs of women and their families, and offered a range of exhibitors from various businesses and professions, including, of course, Sydney's foremost destination for portrait photography, the Photo Studio!

North and the Photo Studio crew were there with our famous white background, shooting portraits of women from all walks of life. We have a great range of images coming soon to our website, so make sure you check it out to vote for your favourite image for your chance to win! You could win a two hour magazine style photo session valued at $450.
 The session also includes makeup, hair styling and wardrobe direction, and a voucher for $100 to go towards any portrait package.
The winner of the People's Choice Award will receive a full model portfolio valued at over $1,200!

Along with the Women's Expo, The Photo Studio is hosting the Sydney Woman competition, to find the woman who best represents the beauty and sophistication of the city of Sydney. The winner will receive:

• A professional magazine style model portfolio, worth $2,000
• A 12 month modelling membership with a leading model agency
• A luxury stayover at one of Sydney's top hotels
• Limousine transfers to the hotel from Wedcorp Limousines
• A skin care pamper pack

We're going to keep running competitions and giveaways on our website, so keep checking in with this blog and the website for your chance to win a model style photo shoot in our Broadway studios!

Introducing your photographers - Adele Thomas

Adele Thomas (pictured above) is one of the Photo Studio's young producers and aspirant photographers. She has worked in her producer role for the studio since November of 2008, making her way to Sydney from London via Thailand and China. Adele has had a passion for photography since her childhood, and her portfolio includes many beautiful Cornish landscapes as a memento of those days.

One of Adele's major interests is travel photography, and in her journeys she has captured many stunning images, from the vistas of the Great Wall of China to Johnny Depp at the Pirates of the Caribbean London premiere. In addition to travel photography, Adele is interested in shooting portraits as well as photojournalism. She left London after breaking her leg on her 21st birthday. After recuperating in a Cornish hospital, she decided to travel and pursue her interest in photography.


Like many others, Adele only intended on staying in Sydney for a short time, but fell in love with the city and has established herself here indefinitely. She decided to obtain formal photography qualifications and has spent a year studying Photo Imaging at Ultimo while working at the Photo Studio as a shoot producer.

Adele says she loves working at the Photo Studio because of the variety - one day she's organising a portrait session for a Sydney family, the next day she's helping out on a commercial shoot in the middle of the wilderness.
She cites the commercial shoot for Emirates' new resort in the Blue Mountains as her favourite experience with the Photo Studio - we're sure that the chance to stay in a $2000 per night 6-star resort didn't hurt!
If you want to see some more of Adele's work, check out her website here.

Tayla Made Photo Shoots

Here at the Photo Studio, we've seen many aspiring young models, and helped them add to their portfolio with fun and stylish fashion and beauty shoots. But we have seldom been so impressed with a young model as when we photographed Tayla Monkhouse's fashion portraits last month.
Tayla and her family headed down to the Photo Studio from their hometown of Grafton, impressed with the Studio's reputation for professional magazine style photography shoots and proven track record of promoting the best in exciting new talent that Australia has to offer.

Tayla enjoyed the fun and informal fashion portrait experience that the Photo Studio offers, taking advantage of the extended shoot times and huge amount of photos that our photographers like to take as opposed to other commercial studios. She had multiple clothing, hair and makeup changes throughout the session, resulting in a great range of looks in the finished product.


Tayla's photographer commended her on her shoot. "Other people come in here and I make them look like a professional model," he said, "with Tayla, I didn't need to try." To book your own professional style model portrait photo shoot, you can get in touch with the Photo Studio by clicking the links at the top of this blog.

Gabrielle Dover, runner up in our Face of Fashion Weekend competition

As promised, here are the fashion portraits of the runner up to our Face of Fashion Weekend competition, which we ran along with Fashion Weekend Sydney. The stunning young Gabrielle Dover was a pleasure to work with and a personal favourite of The Photo Studio photographer Carlo. The Photo Studio's mobile stall at Fashion Weekend was a popular destination for the attendees, who saw a small sample of what they could expect from a full studio shoot in our portrait studio in Glebe.

The mobile studio that The Photo Studio sets up is great for providing a glimpse of the full fashion shoot experience that we can offer in our Glebe studios. Of course, it can be difficult to get out to the events that we are taking the mobile studio out to, but stayed tuned to this blog and we'll let you know about all the upcoming events that we'll be at. Otherwise, you can always get the full studio experience anytime just by booking in for a personal or family portrait shoot through The Photo Studio!


For more great portrait shoots from The Photo Studio, make sure you check out our Flickr Photostream, and don't forget that Fashion Weekend Summer is starting 12 November 09 at the Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park. We'll be there with the mobile photo studio again, so make sure that you drop in if you get a chance to see a sample of the full fashion or family photo shoot experience that we can provide at The Photo Studio!

Roxy Tesanovic, winner of the Face of Fashion Weekend!

Watch this face! The Photo Studio is famous for its fashion and beauty photography. So when Fashion Weekend wanted to launch a photography campaign with a new model, they turned to us. The result was the Face of Fashion Weekend.
North and the gang turned up to Fashion Weekend Sydney, which ran from the 14 – 17 May at the Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park. We set up the mobile photography studio and were soon snapping away at prospective models, mums, those there to see the sights, and everyone who just turned up for the shopping!

At the end of the weekend, we had a tonne of great pictures and portfolios, and North and the fashion weekend people had the agonising task of going through all the aspirational fashion models that we photographed on the day in order to pick out the Face of Fashion Weekend.
Unfortunately, there could only be one winner, and ultimately young up and comer Roxy Tesanovic was chosen as the Face of Fashion Weekend. These portrait shots are from a session that Roxy did with one of our photographers in the studio.
There were many great entries on the day, but Roxy was a standout. She was a vivacious and professional model, and we're watching with great interest as we are sure she will go on to do great things in this industry.


Make sure you check out Fashion Weekend Summer starting 12 November 09 at the Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park. We'll be there again, drop by to get some shots done in our mobile photo studio. You can have a chance to see on a small scale what a full photography session in our Glebe studios could be like - and get some pictures taken be in the running to be the Face of Fashion Weekend Summer!
More entries and runners up from the Face of Fashion Weekend coming soon, so be sure to check back in.

The Photo Studio at Mardi Gras Fair Day Victoria Park.

North Sullivan and the crew from The Photo Studio took their mobile portrait and event studio to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras launch Fair Day at Victoria Park last Sunday.

In a day of patchy weather the photographers and re-touchers created a mini version of the full experience of the excitement of having your portrait taken by the professional photographers at The Photo Studio. The portable studio allows for the cool white background portrait photography the studio is known for on location. With the re-touchers Carlo and Kent adding the finishing touches for the custom postcard prints that were then made on the spot, the day provided a fine example (on a smaller scale) of what you can expect from a full studio portrait shoot.

And there where quite a few takers for The Photo Studio Portrait experience who walked away as very happy campers with their finished mini print. In fact we had some of our early customers returning with their friends to have their portraits taken too. Pets were welcome subjects as well; two dog lovers made excellent portraits with their pooches who had been readied for the Best Dog show on the day. (More about pet portraits soon).

Now you won’t always be lucky enough to catch our team out on one of our promotional exercises but you can have the full studio portrait experience anytime you choose by simply booking your family or personal portrait photography shoot through The Photo Studio.

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Sydney, Australia
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