Just back from a brief trip to the USA for both pleasure and work. Photographed a bunch of (mostly) renewable energy images of solar, wind, natural gas, biomass, and also nuclear and oil.
An interesting aspect to renewables in California is that whilst externally the seem to market California as a world leader in legislating for change, in reality they seem to be well behind many parts of the world and have very little awareness of personal responsibilities such as recycling trash.
A few images below or you can check out the expanded gallery on the main page.
Have had the pleasure of photographing a couple of well known chef’s recently, Josh Emett who works for Gordon Ramsay, and Frank Camorra the creator of the fabulous Movida who is a bit of a Melbourne food icon.
Whilst I imagine photographing Gordon Ramsay would be a stressful, expletive laden frenzy of a shoot, photographing one of his proteges Josh Emett was lovely. Josh has returned to Australia to head up Gordon Ramsay’s first Australian retaurants - maze and maze grill, at the brand new Crown Metropol in Melbourne. I really liked the graphical nature if this image of Josh, photographed for The Age newspaper during construction of the new restaurant.
Josh Emett, maze, Melbourne
Frank was photographed as part of a promotional piece for the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival and was extremely gracious as we worked our way through to a final image. Frank has a lovely quiet dignity which I enjoyed working with. Having been a Movida fan since first tasting that wonderful anchovy with smoked tomato sorbet I recently visited Frank’s newest venue, Movida Aqui, a larger funky bistro styled operation that has the great advantage of doing paella. I can report back that not only was the paella fabulous but the anchoa are better than I remember! A couple of combo pics that I liked from the shoot.
Been seeing all sorts of ideas lately about how the “new” digital magazine will look.
This video from Bonnier / Mag+ is my favourite - a nice, well thought out sophisticated concept, interestingly it doesn’t cover moving pictures. It’s an interesting space and I guess at some point there will be a category killer walkman / discman / ipod execution that actually works…
I just really like these, done for The New Yorker - have a listen to some of the audio if you’ve got a few minutes. Platon sounds a bit full of himself at times but also has some good insights into connecting with people when doing this style of portraiture. Amazing access, simple setup and a lot of hard work:
It’s important to mark these things and to remember that these events change people’s lives not just for the weeks that follow but forever. A new style and voice to our social conscience is emerging. See the teaser below and go to the website here - Surviving the Tsunami - Stories of Hope/#
It’s great to be featured on the front page of something, so I was happy to hear I was (briefly) on the front page of the Demotix website today. Demotix is one of the new breed of citizen journalism style websites that have sprung up recently. Their founder and CEO Turi is a great guy and I had a great chat with him at the Visa Pour L’image in Perpignan. I strongly believe that the democratization of news via the internet has arrived and it’s great to see people like Turi and Demotix out there pioneering new business models. Anyway, quick screenshot of the front page here (bottom left is my series) and link to the pics here. To all those who think we need to be doing something about climate change now, please remember that actions speak louder than words - do something!!
Front page of demotix.com with images from Melbourne climate change protest
A quick link to a nice piece on ABC TV’s 7:30 Report in Australia about the Beyond Reasonable Drought Project.
Or you can click here to maybe launch it directly (needs to load up first so make a cup of coffee and come back..): Beyond Reasonable Drought 7:30 Report
If you have a minute or two to spare, please check out the video below. It mixes audio from those impacted by the earthquake with images taken in Western Sumatra around Padang and Pariamam. Might take a minute to load, please be patient. More images at www.josephfeil.com. Would love to know your thoughts.
Had some photos and a profile written about me and my trip to cover the Indonesian earthquake published in the Big Issue today. Check it out (it’s got Paul Kelly on the cover) and support the Big Issue vendor of your choice. A big thank you to everyone in Indonesia who looked after me!! Check back here tomorrow for a multimedia piece featuring more of the images and some interviews with survivors…
On the radio this morning to talk about the MAP group and the Beyond Reasonable Drought book. Thanks to Kulja and Donna From The Grapevine. RRR are friendly folk
