The two professional photographic jobs of which I am most proud were both done for other artists.  These jobs were exciting and I learned so much during them.  Professionally I have never experienced the level of respect for my craft that these artists have paid me during the making of the work.  If only I could do this all the time, I’d be a happy little photographer.  These are not my works, they belong to the artists who conceived and executed them.

Deborah Kelly’s ‘The Miracles’ is a series of family portraits based on Renaissance paintings of the holy family, the legitimacy of which has come into question.  The models used were all families that had conceived of their children via means other than heterosexual sex, thus by Christian definition, miraculously.  This was a fantastic job in which I flew around the country making these amazing images with a very good friend who wined me and dined me and showed me the town.  Deborah said that she just wanted to be the best boss I ever had.  Yes, Deborah, you were the best.

© All rights reserved Image courtesy of Deborah Kelly and Gallery Barry Keldoulis 2012 Australia

http://www.artabase.net/exhibition/4302-the-miracles-deborah-kelly

My work with Tony Albert was equally rewarding, photographing a series of portraits of young Aboriginal men with targets painted on their chests for his series “Brothers”.  I knew we were getting some good photographs during the shoot and through the editing process, but it wasn’t until I saw the photographs printed large in his exhibition at Sullivan and Strumpf that I understood how successful a work Tony had made.

© Tony Alberts

http://sullivanstrumpf.com/exhibitions/148/