Jamie Williams Photography

Either i’m getting lazy or too choosy, but these days it takes something a little out of the ordinary in the musical world to shift me from the cosy confines of my inner west abode to the frenzy of the front row. So when an email from a friend recommending a gig in the most [...]

“I’m off to shoot the Dalai Lama” (fingers crossed that I haven’t just sparked an SEO-alerted, keyword-intercepted manhunt). As convenient a term as it is, I’ve never really been that comfortable using “shoot” when describing the act of taking someone’s portrait, particularly when that person has received a Nobel Peace Prize and is a champion [...]

No Mum, it’s OK. It’s not a nasty traffic accident, but the prize for photographic portraiture. Having been selected as a finalist in ‘09 I was chuffed to learn that an image of mine has been chosen as part of the 2010 Head On Portrait Prize exhibition of 40 prints.
Formerly a stand alone show, Head [...]

Another week in January, another stellar collection of offerings from the Sydney Festival program. Personal highlights included The Books’ clever, funny blend of music, found recordings and video, watching Peter Sellars inspire his 93-strong cast at the Symphony of Psalms rehearsal in Marrickville Town Hall, Lynette Wallworth’s powerful humanistic works, the stage presence of Six Characters [...]

And what a first week it was - First Night, Al Green, A R Rahman, Grizzly Bear, Neko Case, Hamlet, John Cale, Toumani Deabate and the list goes on. Here’s a selection of my pics. I can’t be in two places at once, so you may notice a few things missing (such as Rahman’s concert at [...]

I harbour fantasies about being a contestant on the SBS TV show Rockwiz - you get to hang out at The Espy hotel in St. Kilda, flirt with the lovely Julia Zamiro, meet an Australian music legend or two and generally have a good time. But I dread the first part of the show where Julia asks contestants to come clean about the first [...]

The high school middle distance runner in me always feels a little disappointed not to be limbering up with the masses come the second Sunday in August, so this year I made the effort to at least get up early and see what all the fuss was about.
I headed over to William St. in Kings [...]

A good mate of mine, the writer, adventurer and footy player Dugald Jellie, invited me to get involved in a project he and some others were working on (including Julia Burns, featured in a previous post about public twittering), part of a broader series of programs celebrating Glebe’s sesquicentenary in 2009.
Glebe Bytes is an oral history project that [...]

Despite my best intentions in recent years, bad weather, need for sleep or lack of motivation has prevented me from going into the city on ANZAC Day to pay tribute to the servicemen and women who sacrificed part of their life, or in many cases sacrificed their lives, to fight wars in distant lands so that we could enjoy the freedoms [...]