A crowd at an outdoor festival in a city square, an MC on stage in the foreground, Adelaide Vegan Festival

Events & Festivals

I love capturing events. They take me to wonderful places, and I enjoy every minute of it. Music festivals in the open air, spiritual festivals, yoga festivals, vegan festivals, conferences and book launches. I have filmed them across Australia, in Bali and through eight summers in Ibiza, and what I am looking for is the same every time: the moment someone forgets there is a camera in the room.

An event is a hundred small things happening at once, and most of them pass with nobody catching them. A speaker finding her rhythm. The song that turns the crowd. A child seeing something for the first time. I move through the day quietly and gather all of it, so what you are left with is the feeling of having been there, not a row of stage shots.

Photographs and film together, from the first arrival to the last set. Enough images to carry you through a year of posts, and a film that shows the people who were not there what it actually felt like to be in the room.

Videography

Nobu opening, Ibiza, with Robert De Niro

Electric Gardens Festival, Adelaide

Vegan Festival, Adelaide

BaliSpirit Festival, Ubud

Colour Cult hair show, Ibiza

The Zoo Project, Ibiza

Lovely Laura and Ben Santiago, Ocean Beach, Ibiza

Nikki Beach closing party, Ibiza

iFuse launch party, Ibiza

Raices opening party, Ibiza

CamelPhat, DJ Awards, Ibiza

Atzaró Fashion Festival, Ibiza

Nativ magazine launch, Ibiza

iUMag August launch party, Ibiza

Photography

A festival crowd seated under white sail shades, arms raised toward the stage

A woman in white kneeling with a rattle raised, leading a ceremony in a light-filled room

Two friends with drinks under an umbrella at the Adelaide Vegan Festival, one in a red bandana

A mother and her small daughter meeting a green and red parrot at a festival

A toddler in an oversized T-shirt paddling through a fountain at a festival, Adelaide

Two women in Powered by Plants T-shirts sitting on a picnic rug under a red parasol at the Adelaide Vegan Festival

A circle of women on cushions in a bright room, one raising a rattle, at a women's gathering

A speaker in a cap with a microphone on a festival stage, smiling, a flamingo banner behind him

A young family with two children eating at a market stall at the Adelaide Vegan Festival

A band on an outdoor festival stage, singer, guitarist and cellist, under a white marquee

A tattooed singer at the microphone with her fist raised, on a festival stage

Two women laughing together at a book launch, one holding a signed copy

Copies of a book on the launch table beside amethyst and rose quartz crystals

A small boy in a blue cap playing giant chess in a city square at a festival, Adelaide

An audience seated at an academic conference, a presentation on the screen at the front

“Jodie brought an edge of creativity and personality into each image at a recent academic conference. Usually a tough shoot, she managed to bring it to life and show the other side of collegiality and the enjoyment of education.”

Lea McBride

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Nightlife

Music

Retreat photography, a circle on the temple steps at Philae, Egypt

Retreats

Let’s make something beautiful together

If you are putting on a festival, a conference, a launch or a gathering of any kind, I would love to come and photograph and film it. Tell me what you are creating, and when it happens.

I photograph across the Sunshine Coast, the hinterlands, Noosa and Maleny, and I travel for festivals and events.