Benjamin Liew Photography in Norwood, South Australia | Camera/photo

Benjamin Liew Photography

Locality: Norwood, South Australia

Phone: +61 421 127 369

Address: 20 Boskenna Ave 5067 Norwood, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.benjaminliew.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Look closely, things arent as they always seem. Dont hit your head against the brick wall while self isolating, use it as a time to self-reflect and grow.

25.01.2022 You’d know when a flock of a sulphur-crested cockatoos are nearby. Their raucous screech is very loud and these guys fly in flocks so you’d hear them long before you can see them. I always enjoy looking at these magnificent creatures. It seems like there are thousands that roam the Adelaide airspace in search of a group of trees large enough for every single one of them to land on. This flock was spotted near the Aldinga Sharks Football Club in 2014.... This image is available as an affordable fine art print. DM me for details.

25.01.2022 The only time I felt nervous was when first walking into the theatre in my scrubs and being introduced to the team. It was a single moment where I let my guard down, my camera wasnt my shield. It hit me that this was serious business, that theres a human being under the green covers with only a tiny hole exposed where the tumour or cyst is being systematically removed. The people in that room are fighting to save this persons life. It was like watching a well oiled machi...ne doing its thing. To the machine, its work, to me, it was a life changing experience and an absolute privilege and honour to be allowed access to the operating theatre with my camera. After formal introductions, I regained my composure the moment my camera was my focus again. I spent the next 11 hours photographing and videoing what was happening in front of me. With just grunts and single words, Neurosurgeon Professor Charlie Teo communicates to the nurse, his second set of hands, who carefully places the requested tool in his hand. The video feed from the microscope is shown on 4 screens so the rest of the team can follow whats happening. See more

25.01.2022 If there’s a s*xier photo of a mutated strawberry, I’d like to see it

24.01.2022 Looking up at a building and the lovely sky reflection. This is a simple technique where I take a triangular crop of an image, copy and paste it then flip and turn it. This is what you get with the right kind of shot.

24.01.2022 A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to collaborate with the Wild Cat Conservation Centre in Sydney where I got to photograph some amazing and beautiful cats. 4 cheetahs, 2 servals and 2 caracals to be exact. Now, the best images have been turned into a beautiful A3 wall calendar. The director of the WCCC, Ben Britton has been working in Africa for over 15 years and is a Director of Mashatu Research, working on the ground in Botswana conserving wild cats and their habita...t. 100% of the proceeds raised from the sale of this calendar will help them continue their vital conservation and education programs for endangered animals. Get your copy from https://benliew.com.au/wild-cat-conservation-calendar/ at a special pre-sale price of $19.95 valid til Friday 23rd November.

23.01.2022 Over the next few weeks Ill be posting photos from my 2014 Europe trip to Instagram, starting off in Torino. Why now and not then? Well, I dunno about you, but my holiday photos always get buried under the piles of work that accumulate during long trips away. And also, were getting an Italian Greyhound tomorrow. So the answer to that question is: Its overdue and relevant. To stay updated, follow @benjaminliew on Instagram.

22.01.2022 An entire room, a team of highly trained specialists, high tech tools, hours in surgery, days spent planning, months spent worrying... all for this tiny uncontrollable naturally occurring abnormality of cells, useless other than to steal years from someones life. To think that something so small can cause so much damage, death and destruction. The tumour behind the patients eye took Dr Charlie Teo and his team 3 hours to remove. It was once the size of a golf ball but now drained of its source of blood, its only half the size.

22.01.2022 Take one perspective, be it figuratively or literally, then look at it in as many different ways as possible. The next thing you know, youre looking at the same thing differently. It transforms like its alive, its same same but different. Youre exploring the same thing, changing your view, appreciating the simple things but understanding how it can be different and coexist at the same time. Like life, were all alive, we breathe, eat, think.. but we do all of that differe...ntly to the next person. Its not wrong just because its different. On the contrary! Its right because its different. Unless youre a robot; a thoughtless artificial construct that abides to a rule and has no concept of anything outside of that. Its not that the robot is wrong either... its just programmed to react in a predetermined way when a predetermined thing happens... but the coolest thing about that is that someones taken a perspective and looked at it differently in as many ways as they can, and next minute there are robots !

21.01.2022 It's opening night tonight for the longest running phone photography exhibition, Skrambled Eggs. This unique photography exhibition cracks open what happens when photographers put down their usual tools of the trade and swap them for one of our most rapidly advancing tech devices - the smartphone. This is the 8th annual installation of Skrambled Eggs that has been running since 2010. 6/12/18 is the date - an appropriate date with the numbers being multiples of half a dozen (e...ggs) and this year we have 24 artists showing over 130 works of art. Thursday 6th December, 6:30pm at the Duke of Brunswick Hotel, 207 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. Red and white wine sponsored by Max & Me Wines and Sparkling wine sponsored by Deviation Road. Nibbles provided, amazing artwork that is available for sale and a beautiful and air conditioned venue. Come down, check it out and chill out with us!

21.01.2022 After a short break, the next patient gets wheeled in and is getting prepped behind them as they go over the pre-planned plan-of-attack.

21.01.2022 This is bat country.

21.01.2022 Its opening night tonight for the longest running phone photography exhibition, Skrambled Eggs. This unique photography exhibition cracks open what happens when photographers put down their usual tools of the trade and swap them for one of our most rapidly advancing tech devices - the smartphone. This is the 8th annual installation of Skrambled Eggs that has been running since 2010. 6/12/18 is the date - an appropriate date with the numbers being multiples of half a dozen (e...ggs) and this year we have 24 artists showing over 130 works of art. Thursday 6th December, 6:30pm at the Duke of Brunswick Hotel, 207 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. Red and white wine sponsored by Max & Me Wines and Sparkling wine sponsored by Deviation Road. Nibbles provided, amazing artwork that is available for sale and a beautiful and air conditioned venue. Come down, check it out and chill out with us!

20.01.2022 The lights in the room are turned off and just the super bright light from the microscope spills out and illuminates everything else around it. Usually having such a bright and direct source of light would annoy me as a photographer but then it occurred to me that in a visually symbolic kind of way, its a ray of light, of hope; a positive spark that cuts through the darkness that surrounds it. @ Sydney, Australia

20.01.2022 This photo was taken during the final stages of the demolition of the east wing of the former Royal Adelaide Hospital last year. You wouldnt want to walk through that door btw, it was a 10 metre drop to rubble, dirt and excavators. @lotfourteenadl

19.01.2022 Travelling Cambodia was an amazing experience, although the history is harrowing and horrible, there is still beauty and fascination everywhere you look. Nature taking over man made temples, engulfing and destroying, but blending in perfection. The structural integrity of the man made building may be compromised but who needs concrete and nails when you can just hold it all together with a tree?

19.01.2022 It looked like I was sleeping on the job but I needed to lay on my back in the middle of the room with my widest lens to get this shot of the ceiling in the Margaret Graham building at Lot 14, the former hospital site on North Terrace. This building and many others have been refurbished and are now offices for many businesses. The most exciting is the Australian Space Agency. Last week I photographed Scott Morrison, our prime Minister officially launching the Space Agency. Heres to looking up!

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18.01.2022 scroll At 4101 metres above sea level, Mt Kinabalu is the tallest mountain in Southeast Asia and is about 10 million years old. Ive scaled the mountain 3 times and successfully reached Lows Peak once, which is ironically the highest point on the mountain. In the foreground is an Islamic mosque and hiding in the middle of this image is a Buddhist temple. I took this photograph as the sun was rising behind the hills and was lucky enough to have some amazing cloud and fog. @ Kota Kinabalu

16.01.2022 Over the next few weeks I'll be posting photos from my 2014 Europe trip to Instagram, starting off in Torino. Why now and not then? Well, I dunno about you, but my holiday photos always get buried under the piles of work that accumulate during long trips away. And also, we're getting an Italian Greyhound tomorrow. So the answer to that question is: It's overdue and relevant. To stay updated, follow @benjaminliew on Instagram.

16.01.2022 Torino scored 36.6 on the boop machine. If you score that too then you’re going places.

16.01.2022 Sunset in Australia, on Australia Day 2020.

15.01.2022 Photographing the menu for First Things First Coffee is always a pleasure! Mmmmm Nutella doughnuts

12.01.2022 Is it a cat, or a hand-held long exposure of a star m (or planet) in the sky at sunset mixed with a voluntary hand spasm?

12.01.2022 Temple & Webster Showroom, Sydney. I accompanied Eric from QVS Commercial Interiors to a fit out he had recently completed for Temple & Webster. It was a structure within a building, and one of the coolest commercial fit outs Ive ever seen. Looking up is one of my favourite pastimes, and laying on the ground is another. This shot has me doing both.

12.01.2022 Having the patients head remain completely still is obviously an important part of undertaking such a fine level of detail of brain surgery under the microscope. The clamps are only in place for as long as they need to be just as the patient is unconscious for only as long as required. The patients head is clamped still with 3 spiked metal points for 3 hours while the golf-ball sized tumour is removed by world renown Neurosurgeon, Dr Charlie Teo. After the final stich is tied, the clamp is removed and replaced with a cushioned head-rest moments before the patient regains consciousness This is the final image of the 4 image folio that won the AIPP South Australian Professional Documentary Photographer of the Year.

11.01.2022 It really was a beautiful looking dish. Nek minnit... @cindysclassicgourmet

11.01.2022 I flew to Kangaroo island to document good people doing good things. Platinum Aircraft Charter mustered up volunteers to load urgent supplies that they had sourced into 3 planes to be flown over. At the last minute Bonnie asked if I wanted to jump on one of the planes to document the unloading of supplies. This picture taken on the return trip from a now empty private luxury jet depicts precisely my experience of the Australian bushfires prior to this flight, other than what I saw reported on social media, TV and radio. Living and working in the metro areas of Adelaide, all I experienced was the smoke from these devastating bushfires. What this picture shows is the smoke rolling smoothly off of KI amongst the clouds, and heading towards Adelaide. The setting sun reflects off of the sea below it.

10.01.2022 Taking off for the long weekend? Have a safe one everyone in NSW, ACT, QLD and SA this labour day long weekend! I’m going to start selling affordable hand printed A2 copies of my work. If you’d like a print of this cockatoo in flight, please get in touch.

09.01.2022 After partying all night with some cool people I met in Berlin, I was ready to make my way over to Prague. I got home at around 5:30am, madly packed my bags, had a shower, checked out and made my way to the bus station. All I could think about was sleeping. Everywhere Ive been, not once did I not come across homeless folk or beggars. When I was in the middle of packing and as the sun was rising, I peered out the window and saw this fellow sifting through a garbage bin across... the road. He had literally fashioned his own poncho out of plastic bags, and that included different, clear plastic for the sleeves. Whenever I can, I will give food to someone who asks for it. Back home in Adelaide, I was approached by a man asking for money for food. I only had a credit card with me so I took him to the nearest restaurant and got him to order himself a meal. I sat and had a chat to him and he was happy for me to take his portrait. I did so before I fixed up the bill and left him to enjoy his meal. Ive done this countless times... not to everyone that asks but because sometimes all they want is the money, but when I can, Ill buy a meal for someone who needs it. I never got to buy this fellow a meal, though I wish I did. So by writing this post, if only one person out there reads it and is compelled to buy a meal for someone in a bad situation, then I can only hope in one way or another, this man in the photo gets a meal too. Perhaps even by way of a butterfly effect... See more

09.01.2022 Last night I photographed the Rebel Ball and one of the auction prizes was a day in surgery with Charlie Teo. This item sold for $50k and raised much needed funds for brain cancer research. I was given the amazing opportunity to witness and document brain surgeries performed by Professor Charlie Teo last year. This is the 1st of 4 images that made up the folio that won the AIPP Professional South Australian Documentary Photographer of the Year just last week. After removing a cyst from the brain, world renown neurosurgeon, Prof Charlie Teo stitches each layer of flesh together with as much skill and care as he used to make the first incisions 2 hours prior.

09.01.2022 Back in the day when going out to a restaurant was a thing, I photographed this dish at @pikeswines and boy, was it tasty. Best thing about shooting food and not being a wasteful kinda guy is eating it afterwards. Yummo

09.01.2022 Its structured chaos being on a demolition site. Safety is the number 1 priority; Im wearing eye protection, steel cap boots, hard hat, high vis vest, long pants and sleeves and have an escort with me to make sure I dont go where Im not meant to. All around me are excavators weighing a few tonnes to 160 tonnes breaking stuff, cranes lifting things, bobcats moving rubble, people with power tools and wheelbarrows. Ive signed in so that in case of emergency, they ...know how many people are on site and can be accounted for if need be. And even though we move fairly quickly throughout each scene, theres so much beauty in destruction, gorgeous lighting and such a calm stillness amongst all the destruction. Its fascinating to be able to experience demolition because most of it is being recycled and brought by the truckload to ResourceCo in Wingfield, who are an independent client that Ive shot for. The Wingfield facility uses world-leading technology to turn construction, demolition, commercial and industrial waste destined for landfill into baseload energy called Processed Engineered Fuel. The fuel is then on-sold to Adelaide Brighton Cement to reduce the use of raw materials in the manufacturing process. The cement produced by Adelaide Brighton is then used in a host of major infrastructure projects across South Australia, including the recent redevelopment at Adelaide Oval - from Mirage News website. @adelbrightonltd Adelaide Brighton Cement are also a client Ive shot for on multiple occasions as well as a multitude of construction companies and builders in South Australia where cement is used. Not only is the process amazing that it even exists but I am so privileged in my career that I get a backstage pass to witness this all happen. Its the cycle of life for buildings, and this picture represents just one tiny step in it all. See more

07.01.2022 Scroll The sun was in the perfect spot when we pulled over for a break from driving. There was an excavation site of some sort, parts of the exposed clay were submerged under water whilst others parts had evaporated but were still muddy. These rocks were only a couple of inches high, protruding from the mud with the sunlight perfectly highlighting the peaks. @ Kota Kinabalu

06.01.2022 Some extreme (looking) weather clouds over Adelaide. Taken from Norwood. March 2017

06.01.2022 It was the morning after a big night out that I stumbled across the scene before you of a smashed Passion Pop bottle that had been swept to a corner of Franklin Street in Adelaide City. It wasnt my bottle, fyi; Ive never knowingly consumed Passion Pop, but when I displayed this limited edition photo at a solo art exhibition 10 years ago, it brought back so many memories for people who had. The art exhibition comprised of 8 photos, and every single piece I had on display sold a few times over. Eventually this piece was bought 8 times with the largest piece being over a metre wide. This limited edition print is still available, with multiple sizes available from 15 centrimetres up to 1.5 metres. Comment or DM me your interested and Ill send you prices.

05.01.2022 If theres a s*xier photo of a mutated strawberry, Id like to see it

03.01.2022 Ive just been selected as a finalist in the $30k Bowness Prize. The photo is of my dog, Torino the Italian Greyhound shortly after he broke his leg in August 2018. Check out all the finalists at the MGA website. https://www.mga.org.au/bowness-prize/2019-finalists

03.01.2022 This is an alternative version of an artwork I created based on the theme red in 2017. The following artist statement still remains relevant to the piece even though the art is completely different. Reality can be described as an individual experience skewed by the perspective of expectation. Visual cues are established by the perception of the norm standard rules driven by a lifetime of learned memory. Once reality departs imagination takes hold, and one can be pus...hed into the surreal. This piece lures the viewer with familiarity. Simple droplets quickly flow into a rush of complexity. Olive oil, chili powder, and saffron were used and it is these elements which illustrate the integral connection between the real and the surreal. See more

02.01.2022 Bird on a stobie pole wire. A South Australian invention and icon, the stobie pole is merely a power line pole made of two steel joists held apart by a slab of concrete. It was 2013 when I spotted this stobie pole that only had one wire coming from it. I’d never seen a stobie pole used like this before; usually they are holding up a number of wires along the side of a road. ... Then the bird appeared and completed the scene. I’m selling this as an affordable artwork, hand printed on art paper by yours truly at 42cm in size. DM me for enquiries.

01.01.2022 At least petrol prices are dropping