Hey ho! Sharon here, with an update on a magazine cover story I photographed of an inspirational lady. Inova is a US-based health and hospital service provider. Although based on the east coast of the USA, the Spring 2019 cover story of Inova’s INhealth medical & healthy lifestyle magazine was slated to feature Australian patient Dina McPherson. Dina was back in Melbourne following a successful surgical heart procedure in the US, and enguaged me…
AWARD UPDATES Silver Award – 2018 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Sharon’s stunning album cover portrait has won again, this time receiving a Silver Award at the 2018 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Parisinternational photography awards, chosen by a jury panel from over 7,000 entries from 100 countries around the world. 6th Place – Australian Photography Awards Sharon’s gorgeous album cover image won 6th place in the highly contested ‘Portrait’ category of the 2017 Australian…
Shooting environmental portraits – pictures of people on location, in context of who they are and what they do – is one of our favourite types of photography. So naturally we love photographing graduate profiles for Melbourne-based training provider William Angliss Institute.
Sometimes the advertising photography we’re called on to do is less about being ‘visually creative’ and more of a technical and ingenuity challenge – like translating an artwork housed in a tiny garage into Melbourne’s largest billboard. The Southern Cross Austereo radio network had a cunning idea for promoting Triple M radio station – commission Melbourne’s most notorious street artist HAHA to create a custom artwork and put it on the largest billboard in the…
The Nature Conservancy is a US-based organisation dedicated to ecological conservation, with over 600 scientists working on projects in 69 countries. Rick Hamilton, a marine scientist based in Brisbane, Australia, works extensively in marine environments and recently (re)discovered the rare crusty Nautilus – an elusive sea creature last seen alive in the 1980s. The June/July issue of Nature Conservancy magazine would feature an essay on Rick’s diving mission to find the secretive Nautilus. We went on assigment to meet Rick in Brisbane to create an…
Image Workshop photographer Sharon Blance is pleased to be featured in a brand new exhibition staged by the National Trust exploring the enduring legacy of Picnic at Hanging Rock. 40 years ago the film galvanised Australian cinema with its dreamy, surreal visual interpretation of an already-iconic mystery story. Picnic at Hanging Rock – both the book and film – are deeply etched on the Australian psyche and hold a special place in the cultural consciousness. Such is the enduring legacy of Picnic that the…
Business Class magazine is a brand new industry magazine telling success stories from business owners around the country. For its first-ever issue, editor Isaac Bober really wanted to make a splash and stand out from the crowd. He approached Image Workshop photographer Sharon Blance to shoot the cover story for the magazine’s launch – featuring Chris Gurney from Bakers Delight, who was instrumental in growing the brand for over a decade. The magazine wanted high…
We’re very excited to have photography in print for the feature article ‘Secret Melbourne’ in this month’s Silverkris magazine. Silverkris is Singapore Airlines’ travel magazine – a beautifully produced, and award wining editorial magazine covering aspects of business, travel and leisure. As an editorial photographer in Melbourne, this was a fantastic article to shoot for. The story ‘Secret Melbourne’ focused on digging into some of the hidden treasures of Melbourne city. This presented us with…
We’re super pleased that two web projects we supplied photography for have recently won awards for design excellence. An initiative of The Designers Institute of New Zealand, The Best Design Awards is the annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product and interactive design. Image Workshop was commissioned by digital agency NV Interactive to supply photography for two websites which have both recently received Bronze status at the Awards.
We were on an Air New Zealand flight recently to spend Christmas Day at Brence’s brother’s house near Napier (Art Deco capital of the world and home to a surprisingly good aquarium) when we spotted some of our work in the inflight magazine.
