Lost & Found #33: Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Portraits, 2004

In 2004, I was asked by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand to make a series of portraits of their Laureate award winners for the year - a disparate group of people from around the country, who had been nominated quite without their knowledge to receive this new award. They got a phone call out of the blue one day to say they'd won, there was no application process or requirement to produce work and report back - they'd simply been chosen because of their contribution to the country's culture.

Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour - Aida (sweep panorama with Fuji X-Pro 1 & 18mm f/2)

After the 'storm of the century' in Sydney earlier this week, I was slightly dreading the weather for the Opera Australia production of Aida we had tickets for - but it could hardly have been better last night...!

Lost & Found #32: Orchestra Wellington Circus Proms, 2007 & 2009

I was Orchestra Wellington's photographer from 2004-2011, documenting concerts and rehearsals for them with a range of guest soloists alongside music director Marc Taddei, a marvellous conductor, and a hilarious guy to work with, too.

In 2007, General Manager Christine Pearce got in touch to say they were working with a circus school on a kids' concert, and would I like to photograph it for them - naturally I was intrigued, but I'm not sure I expected THIS! Sure, why wouldn't you put hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of delicate instruments on stage with a flying trapeze, kids on unicycles, and stilt-walkers? What could possibly go wrong...?

Les Parapluies de Surry Hills

This was initially just going to be a single photo on Instagram, then maybe a couple, then maybe a hashtag, and now it's a gallery...there's a storm in Sydney today, but having moved here from Wellington this just seems like another (summer) day, to me!

PhotographyRobert CattoApril 21, 2015Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Umbrellas, Rain, Photography, iPhone 5S, Instagram, StormComment

Lost & Found #31: Dead Letters, Wellington 2005

This is the third instalment of my Lost & Found series dedicated to Dead Letters, a beautiful short film I worked on nearly ten years ago now - but the more I dug into the files from this one six-day shoot, the more I liked what I saw (if I may say so myself)!

Lost & Found #30: Dead Letters, Wellington 2005

As I mentioned in last week's Lost & Found, I didn't need a lot of convincing to work on Dead Letters, the short film we made in 2005. The film follows Ngaire (Yvette Reid), whose job it is to take letters from families during World War II and transfer them to microfilm before sending them overseas, to the New Zealand forces in Europe at the time...

Lost & Found #29: Dead Letters, Wellington 2005

In mid-2005, my friend Gemma Gracewood got in touch to say she was working on a short film called Dead Letters, with fellow producer Fraser Brown and director Paolo Rotondo, which was going to be shot in Wellington - and would I be interested in doing some stills for them...?

Lost & Found #28: The Arrival, New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010

Today's Lost & Found is an image from the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival, and as was so often the case, was something that just happened in front of me when I found myself in exactly the right spot...

Lost & Found #27: Cuba St Carnival, Wellington 2009

Today's Lost & Found images come from an event I was just attending, rather than working on - the Cuba Street Carnival night parade in Wellington, New Zealand...

Lost & Found #26: Pit Stop Practice for the McLaren team, Melbourne 2003

Today's Lost & Found is celebrating the start of this year's Formula One season, which begins this weekend at the Albert Park in Melbourne. I've been to a few races there over the years - and a couple in Montreal, too - but in 2003 I managed to find myself in the pit lane on the Wednesday afternoon before the event officially started, sandwiched between the Williams and McLaren pits just as the team decided to get a few trial pit stops under their belts...

Lost & Found #25: The Trial Of The Cannibal Dog, 2008

I was looking through a few images recently from past New Zealand International Arts Festivals, and came across this one from the 2008 opera, The Trial Of The Cannibal Dog, at the Opera House in Wellington...

Lost & Found #24: Methven, New Zealand 2003

As I mentioned in last week's post, this Lost & Found image is from a trip to Methven in the South Island of New Zealand I did back in 2003 for a magazine in NYC; because the story was about skiing, it seemed important to try to capture some of the mountains around the town, even though the season wasn't right...

PhotographyRobert CattoFebruary 26, 2015Photography, Methven, New Zealand, South Island, Lost And Found, Film, MountainsComment

Lost & Found #23: Methven, New Zealand 2003

In early 2003, I got an email from a magazine in New York, wondering if I was available to pop down to the South Island for a couple of days, to find some images to accompany a story about skiing in New Zealand. Well, who am I to say no to such a thing?

PhotographyRobert CattoFebruary 19, 2015Photography, New Zealand, Methven, South Island, Film, Lost And FoundComment

Apocalypse Theatre presents Asylum: 3 & 4

The Asylum project wrapped up over the weekend, and I managed to get back to the Old 505 Theatre on Thursday and Saturday to photograph the last two blocks of scripts I hadn't had an earlier chance to photograph...

Lost & Found #22: Wolcott, New York 2010

This week's Lost & Found entry comes from the upstate New York town of Wolcott, New York - I was driving through from Montreal to Rochester a few years back (on my way to Eastman House for the first time, which was excellent)...

PhotographyRobert CattoFebruary 12, 2015Lost And Found, New York State, Fountain, Hotel Wolcott, Epson R-D1s, Photography, USAComment

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