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Laura, Michele & Francesco

During the Christmas holiday period, I met up with Laura, a friend whom I first met several years ago in Rome at Jonathan’s apartment in Trastevere. At the time Laura was also living in the same apartment building and she was a regular guest on Jonathan’s rooftop terrace for his delicious cooking.

Fast forward several years … Laura found the debonaire Michele and as a result, their gorgeous son Francesco was born. Fast forward some more and the whole family decided to make a trip to discover Australia, also to experience surfing on the east coast from Noosa to Long Reef beach.

During their summer holiday, we met up in Sydney and I completed a photo shoot with all three in my studio. It was such a pleasure to see Laura again, and to meet Michele and Francesco for the first time. I was enchanted and I am so pleased that the occasion was marked by some beautiful portraits of a happy Italian family.

It’s easy to see who is the most photogenic in the family…
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Family portrait in the house where they grew up

Family portraiture is a universal category in photography … but I do not often get the opportunity to shoot this genre. Although I mostly concentrate on corporate, theatre and general commercial work, I was recently asked to photograph a Sydney family at home.

Jackie and Gerard wanted a photographic document that would be a snapshot recording a time in their family’s life, making an image that they could refer to in the future. They particularly wanted the family to be photographed in front of the family home in Sydney, showing the house where the kids had grown up. I thought that was a great idea.

So, on a temperate autumn evening, I ventured to their family home. We shot a series of portraits of Jackie, Gerard, Majella, Jimmy and Frankie in various combinations and poses, also with their pet dog. It was a great exercise in contributing to part of a family’s heritage.