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Graham Monro honoured as Canon Australia celebrates 50 years
15 September 2009
Graham Monro has been invited by Canon Australia to be honoured at a very special event celebrating esteemed international and Australian Canon photographers, and highlighting the deep heritage that Canon has had with the photographic community since the early 1960′s.
Canon will be holding an event that celebrates 50 years of EOS in Sydney on October 15.
As part of the event, Canon will be revealing photography images from across the decades – from the 60′s all the way through to this current decade. For each decade Canon is showcasing 3 professional international photographers and highlight 3 or 4 images from each photographer.
Graham’s work has been selected by Canon for being within the sphere of those top photographers who have contributed greatly with their images and the passion they hold for photography as a whole.
Fame Game a Snap – Mosman Daily Article featuring Master Photographer Graham Monro of gm photographics
10 September 2009
If you pride yourself on being a celebrity spotter, head straight to Mosman Art Gallery there’s hundreds of celebrities on show.
There’s Britney Spears, George Clooney Lindsay Lohan, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Johnny Depp, Princess Di, Michael Jackson and many more.
As Mosman photographer Graham Monro points out, it’s a reflection on our society that so many of us can identify so many of them.
The gallery is hosting a travelling exhibition called New Deities: Art and the Cult of Celebrity, put together by the Devonport Regional Gallery in Tasmania
The exhibition features artworks that satirise or explore the cult of celebrity and the public’s insatiable appetite for images whether they are of movie stars or young teenagers trying to get their picture on the internet.
One of the artworks is a collage of hundreds of celebrity images, another is a series of photographs of Amanda Lepore, an American who has had more plastic surgery than hot breakfasts.
One artwork is simply a scene repeated over and over again of Tom Cruise about to kiss his girl in the movie Top Gun. There is also three large paintings of Lohan, Paris Hilton and rap artist P. Diddy that outbrush the art of airbrushing.
Monro, who often photographs celebrity weddings, including the recent nuptials of Guy Sebastian, is giving a talk at the gallery this Sunday at 2pm. Monro said shooting celebrity weddings had its hazards, including being “papped” (when the paparazzi get an unauthorised shot). “As a wedding photographer you don’t want to get their media face. You want their love face, their passion,” he said. Despite his fondness for celebrity nuptials, Monro said he found society’s obsession with celebrities obscene. “It is bizarre that we so obsessed with celebrities, particularly when they fall from grace,” he said.
Monro believes the exhibition is a fantastic way to highlight this obsession.
The exhibition, which features all Australian artists, continues until October 12.
Courtesy Mosman Daily 2008
Redesign of gm photographics website
30 July 2009
The redesign of the gm photographics website
Welcome to the new gm photographics website. Here you will find everything you need to know about wedding photography, portraits and art photography. The website has been re-launched with a vibrant new look, new content, significant layout updates and features our latest work.
We are aiming to provide easily accessible information. Over the next weeks we will be adding to the site, so keep visiting to discover new layers to gm photographics online presence.
Our comprehensive wedding section showcases some of our most recent work. Click through the galleries to read testimonials and real wedding stories. You may even find some inspiration for your own wedding day.
Our portrait photography section shows all of the different types of portraits from families to newborns and pets. Our Frequently Asked Questions section is a great source of information if you are looking to have portraits taken soon.
The gm photographics art section takes you on a special journey. gm photographics art photography offers you the opportunity to enrich your environment with a piece from one of Australia’s most successful studios. gm photographics art photography portrays some of Sydney’s most inspiring views, from the dawn across Balmoral Beach to the haunting night lights of Sydney’s iconic Opera House.
We are always wanting to evolve. We want our new website to be everything you want it to be and so would love to know your thoughts. Please let us know if you have any problems using the site, suggestions for improvement and, of course, any praise: contact us.
We would love to hear from you.
gm photographics newly renovated studio in Mosman
30 July 2009
We are celebrating the reopening of our Mosman studio!
We are conveniently located at 128 Avenue Road, Mosman.
Our walls are adorned with captivating portraits, stylish wedding photography and classic fine art pieces. Come in and see the latest in framed images, acrylics and canvas.
The studio now offers state of the art technology and is complete with a viewing cinema for you to relax and view your images.
Make an appointment or just come by and visit us soon, we would love to see you.