WENDY MCDOUGALL Wall
WENDY MCDOUGALL Table
SMALL TALK
If it’s not recorded did it even happen?
Small Talk is from a collection of life moments I chanced upon taken over many years, some fleeting, almost missed, while others lasting beyond the timed frame that may have even be the stepping off point for future photo sessions.
These are my little pebbles of light showing a path and a way of engaging in the world with all its magical moments as well as its cracks and imperfections.
Do they confirm that these life moments even happened or do they tell more about who I am as they paint a visual life?
Bio - Wendy McDougall b. 1961
Wendy McDougall is an award-winning Sydney based freelance photographer and artist.
With over 40 years of experience, Wendy started her photographic career in the music business in 1979. She sold her first photo to The Angels and went on making iconic pictures of iconic musicians such as INXS, Crowded House, Paul Kelly, Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes, Diesel, Divinyls, Ross Wilson and many others. From this platform Wendy branched into other creative arenas such as theatre, film & television and documentary photography.
In 2018 Wendy won the inaugural ‘Best Photographer’ AWMA [Women in Music Awards]. A retrospective exhibition of her work was then shown in Sydney and Melbourne. From the success of the show Wendy released a book under the same title - ‘it’s only rock’n’roll but I like it..’
Since 1984 Wendy has exhibited her work in 19 solo and over 55 group exhibitions.
Photographs by Wendy are held in collections of National Library of Australia, NSW State Library, Museum of Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum