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If you happen to live in certain parts of Sydney, The Glebe & Inner Western Weekly is delivered to your doorstep every Wednesday. If you also happen to be a photographer, it is impossible not to notice the name John Appleyard. There it is time and again, under the photo on the front page, throughout the news pages and back through sections for the arts, entertainment, dining and sport.

Fifteen years ago, Sydney-based rock photographer Ian Jennings was a motorcycle mechanic and racer in the central North Island of New Zealand. At age 20, as young Kiwis do, he decided to check out London. Then a trip to Egypt inspired him to buy a Canon EOS-1 SLR on returning to London, and he started building up a kit.

Big company commissions avant garde artist to create immense panoramic photographs using its latest technology.’ – Hardly sounds remarkable does it? But when the artist is well known for championing the aesthetic virtues of low resolution cameras, and when the imaging technology in question is Nokia’s 7610 phonecam, then you know you aren’t dealing with just another run-of-the-mill technology PR piece.

The photographers at Urban Angles know that less is more when it comes to selling real estate at the top end of the market.

‘We go out individually and we work together, kind of like a tag team,’ says Pearce of the creative duo they call Visual Guerillas. ‘We’re trying to evolve our own personal styles while pooling our collective talents to come up with really innovative work.’

We emailed Australian photographer Mark Bramley to find out how his freelance career was going in London. Quite well, apparently. He replied: “I’m literally about to leave for the airport, for a four day shoot in Italy, so I’m going to be brief. Feel free to elaborate on my behalf.”

Anthony Browell’s darkroom looks fairly conventional on the ‘wet’ side; enlargers, easels, trays, sink, boxes of photo paper and bottles of chemicals occupy the small and tidy space where all his developing and printing happens. But the ‘dry’ side could as easily belong to a woodworker as a professional photographer. Row upon row of beautiful carpentry tools hang on the wall adjacent to the door into the darkroom proper. Overhead, a laundry line is bowed slightly from the ceiling by the dozen or so 10 x 8-inch black and white negatives from his latest photographic foray.

 Location: Bondi, NSW My Favourite Websites: www.obscuragallery.com www.acp.org.au www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au www.arthere.com.au www.visualarts.net.auwww.artshub.com.au My Gear: Nikon FG20 Canon IXUS 70 (image shot with this) Nikon D200I would love to get a Leica! Inspirations: Other photographic artists: Robyn Stacey (my photography teacher in 1988), Brassai, Dora Maar, Rineke Dijkstra, Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Bill Henson, Ella …

  Gallery Profile: Tim Geraghty-Groves Location: Brisbane, Queensland. My Favourite Websites: http://www.d-d-photographics.com for some of the best deals http://jillgg.typepad.com A Showcase of my wife’s work! And EBay! My Gear: A couple of Canon 30Ds with Battery grips, 10-22mm EFS, 28-135mm IS USM, 50mm f2.5 Macro, 50mm f1.8, 85mm f1.8 Inspirations: My environment. Seeing things that …

  Location: Sydney, NSWrobynnehayward.zenfolio.com My Favourite Websites: weburbanist.comMike Brodie (see: http://tinyurl.com/3lraq2) Inspirations:My inspirations are mainly visual, a scene that appeals because of the light or colour, or the way objects in it are composed. But there are also attachments that come from a sense of connection to place and history – such as the Maori …