Introducing your photographers - Rosie Joyce

Rosie Joyce (above, with a family of quadruplets) is one of the Photo Studio's newest photographers. She's been in Sydney for less than a year, and at the studio for around five months, but has quickly made her presence felt with her fun, vibrant portraits.
Rosie joined the Photo Studio to specialise in family and baby photography, which she cites as "much more fun and relaxing than fashion photography".

Rosie likes shooting family and kids photos because she wants to get away from the traditional view of family photography as having everyone in a formal stilted pose in front of the camera. Rosie's style is influenced by advertising photography, and is "all about fun and letting the subject express their personality". This really comes out in her baby and children photos, which are brimming with energy and personality.

Rosie says that she likes to let the subjects be the art directors of their own photo shoots. That counts for the kids as well as their parents - Rosie captures beautiful spontaneous images with kids and babies that would be impossible to craft with professional models. She likes to capture the relationship between families in a relaxed and fun way, and her number one rule is to "not be afraid to get down on the floor and act like a big kid!"

Family and children photos make great Christmas gifts, especially for grandparents and family members from overseas. If you have little ones, make sure you take advantage of our special Christmas family photo shoot offers. Just contact the Photo Studio for a shoot and quote 'Christmas Blog Readers offer' to receive a FREE photoshoot and a $100 voucher to go towards any portrait package. This great offer is valid for any booking made before the end of December, so contact the Photo Studio today!

The Perfect Christmas Gift

If you are looking for the perfect gift for Christmas, why not come down to the Photo Studio for a family portrait?
As well as being award winning fashion and commercial photographers, the Photo Studio specialises in getting great pictures of families and kids. North loves working with kids and babies to get those special shots that you will treasure forever.

The Photo Studio offers a range of great packages, and don't forget that beautiful family portraits can make great gifts for grandparents and family members that live overseas. You can come into the studio to get fantastic pictures that will be with your family for years, and at the same time pick up a range of smaller pictures that are just perfect as gifts and mementos.

If you have young children, make sure that you book in for gorgeous family portraits so that you can have amazing pictures of your children at that age that you can look back on for years to come. Kids grow up so fast, and with a family portrait session at the Photo Studio, you will have a lasting image to treasure.

Not only will a family portrait session give you beautiful images of your family, but they are also great fun! North and the Photo Studio crew truly believe in capturing the moment, and they like to make family photo shoots fun and lively affairs. Everyone, from the youngest tyke to the grandparents invariably end up getting involved, not only in the family photo shoot itself, but also looking through the pictures from the day, picking their favourites and deciding what kind of look they would like applied by our Photoshop experts. So don't delay, book yourself a fun family portrait session at the Photo Studio today!

Glebe's 150th birthday celebrations are finishing up in just a couple of days, so if you haven't yet, make sure you check out the outdoor photography exhibits. The large outdoor portraits, taken by Tom Psomotragos and our own North Sullivan, have been printed out on 1600mm x 1000mm canvas sheets and displayed throughout Glebe for the month. Hurry though, you only have a couple more days to tour the 'Glebe outdoor gallery' before the pictures come down on the 28th of November.

Introducing your photographers - North Sullivan

We like to think here at the Photo Studio that what makes us different from a lot of other commercial photography studios is the relationship that we form with our clients. As North has told us time and time again, the Photo Studio is about 'the Art of You'. That means that our job, as photographers, producers and editors is to work together with the client to create something that they are truly happy with, something that really represents them.
Well, we think that can go both ways, so over the coming few months you'll see some mini biographies of the Photo Studio staff popping up on this blog. Seeing as North (above, with Erin Collett outside the studio in Glebe) is in the Blue Mountains at the moment photographing a campaign for Emirates, we thought we would take the opportunity to do a piece on him that he can't influence!

North has been a professional photographer for over thirty years. As one of Australia's most esteemed advertising photographers, he has been involved in some iconic campaigns, including the first Qantas Children's Choir photographs (see the blog entry on the subject below), the AMP Olympic Torch relay, launching the new GMC Envoy and many others.
Despite his famed commercial work, North also has a passion for photographing people, from the well known, such as Sydney intellectual, writer and radio personality, Phillip Adams, to the average person on the street, seen in his portraits of the Glebe Girls and Glebe Boys near the Photo Studio. His 2004 exhibition 'Local Heroes' celebrated the known and lesser known champions of the local Balmain community. He is currently executing a new series of portraits based around Glebe.

North has been a finalist two years running in the AGNSW Australian Photographic Portrait Prize and was a runner-up in SMH’s Shoot the Chef. North was responsible for founding The Australian Photographers’ Collection, is the past President of The Association of Australian Commercial and Media Photographers and was the inaugural Director of The Australian Photographers’ Gallery. He is currently Australia’s representative with the newly formed Imagery Alliance based in the USA.

North was just over a mile from Ground Zero on September 11, and took many powerful images in the days following. He founded one of Australia's most respected photography collections, the Fuji ACMP Australian Photographers' Collection and is also a guest lecturer on photography at The Art Gallery of NSW. Last but not least, North has the most modern tribute to his importance as a photographer and Sydney personality in the form of his own Wikipedia entry!

Lastly, the 'Face of the Baby Show' competition is up and running and we're starting to see the results come in. Everyone here at the Photo Studio has their favourite image, what's yours? Make sure you vote for your chance to win!
We would like to thanks all the families that came in to our mobile studio and took pictures with us over the Baby Show weekend. It was a huge success and we really enjoyed the energy and enthuasism which we got from the parents and babies. The fantastic expression and adorable smiles we got on the day made the whole experience very enjoyable for us here at the studio. With such a large number of entries it really is going to be a tough competition
Each entrant has the opportunity to take away the fabulous prize of an hour long fun-filled Magazine Style Studio Photo Shoot for the whole family. Plus 4 x A5 hand crafted fine art prints of your choice valued at over $1,200.
All you have to do is get your friends and family voting for you by the corresponding number on our image gallery.
The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges from our studio along with the organisers of The Baby Show. Also you are entered into the ‘Peoples Choice Award’ where you can get your friends and family to vote on line where you could both also win one of the additional free family Photo-Shoot Prize Packages.

The Photo Studio's weekend of baby and family photography

The Photo Studio spent the weekend at the Baby Show, which ran from the 18th to the 20th of September at the Royal Hall of Industry, Moore Park. North and the crew were there to set up their famous white mobile studio to capture all the fun and excitement of the weekend. Families were lining up around the block for a chance to get a high quality print of themselves with their baby, and the Photo Studio didn't disappoint, delivering classic pictures for the families to treasure.

The Baby Show was also a 'baptism of fire' for one of the Photo Studio's newest photographers, Rosie Joyce. Rosie jumped right into it, delivering more than 170 stunning images over the course of the weekend, and had a lot of practice at making her subjects smile. She puts her success down to "tickles and squeaky toys". Rosie is joining the team to specialise in family and kids photo sessions, although she'll keep her hand in with everything that the Photo Studio can throw at her.

Every picture that we took entered the family into the draw to be declared 'the Face of the Baby Show'. The winner will receive an hour long fun-filled magazine style photo shoot for the whole family, plus four fine art prints of their choice from the session, valued at over $1,200. Stay tuned, the winner will be announced soon!
Keep checking our website as well, as the photos from the weekend will soon be up. Vote for your favourite shot, and the winner of the 'People's Choice Award' will win one of the additional free family photo-shoot prize packages. Make sure you register and vote, as that puts you in the draw to win your choice of a family photo shoot or a fashion portrait session!

Check the Photo Studio website soon to check out the images from the weekend and vote for your chance to win your own family photo shoot here at our studios.
As well as giving you beautiful pictures to remember forever, the photo shoots themselves are great experiences as our photographers and staff make everybody look and feel fantastic.
"We all loved the photo shoot, the girls had so much fun. We are really enjoying our family portrait, my husband said it was the best ever gift." - Sharmini Poynder
"Our family had a fantastic morning - I didn't expect it to be so much fun. The photos are really great and have captured the family beautifully." - Lorna Clark
"Thank you for a great shoot with the girls. They loved it." - Louise Kalmus

But it's not all babies and family portraits here at the Photo Studio. Later this week, North and the crew are heading up to photograph the promotional pictures for Emirates' new luxury resort in the Blue Mountains. Located in Wolgan Valley, adjacent to the greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, the resort is opening in October of 2009. Check back in the coming weeks to see some of the stunning images that we are sure to capture!

Qantas relicenses North's famous campaign

Children are notoriously difficult to work with as subjects in photography portraits. So when Qantas needed someone to shoot not one, but an entire choir of kids for their famous 'I Still Call Australia Home' commercial, the first person they turned to was North Sullivan.
These images were shot during the filming of the first commercial in 1998. This campaign was voted Australia's favourite advertising campaign in 2006. The images are recurring favourites, with the picture above being viewed on Flickr over 80,000 times and favourited by 1,500 people.

North is known as one of the world's greatest photographer of kids and families, and he now uses his passion to deliver unforgettable family portraits at the Photo Studio in Glebe.
Qantas have, in their latest advertising campaign, decided to relicense some of the most famous and iconic images from the previous campaigns. Foremost amongst these of course, is North's unforgettable picture of the members of the children's choir lining the Great Wall of China. Eleven years after it was originally shot, this stunning portrait is once again being used to deliver Qantas' brand to the world.


North has done many other famous advertising campaigns - the AMP Olympic Torch relay and his series for Land Rover spring to mind - but children and family portraits remain his passion. This passion has continued with the Photo Studio, where North likes to step in to deliver unforgettable family pictures for a range of clients. Some of North's work will be on display at the the Baby Show this weekend from Friday the 18th to Sunday the 20th of September. Make sure to drop by and see our mobile photo studio at Stand C2. North and the Photo Studio crew will be taking photos of babies with their parents and carers, so make sure you get some shots done for the chance to be voted the Face of the Baby Show 2009! All photos will be able to be viewed after the event, so check online at our website after the event to see all the great shots we're sure to see on the day!