Photopia Studio Blog

Another sneak preview of Gladstone Gymnastic Club's Out of this World performance display. Photos, video downloads and DVDs are still available from our online shop a http://tiny.cc/photopia.

We are back with a bang for 2020 and we are looking forward to creating exciting photography with all our regular clients and working with new clients throughout the year. We love attending your events and celebrations and being able to capture memories for you that will live on forever.

Our very last picture of the decade! Thank you so much Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre and Gladstone Regional Council for this magnificent New Years Eve Party. We wish all our customers and everyone in Gladstone and elsewhere a most wonderful new decade. Roll on 2020!

Photopia Studio and Galleries will be running two workshops throughout the Festival of Summer Programme. DSLR Photography and Green Screen Photography. Both activities will run from 10am till 2pm.

Photopia Studio and Gallery are pleased and honoured to work in partnership with the GECC for the Festival of Summer (previously known as Sunfest), activities run for children at various locations to keep the holiday blues away. The programme is available now from https://gladstoneentertainment.com/event/festival-of-summer or pop into the GECC.

Back in 2018, MIXTAPE was one of the most popular exhibitions to be held at Photopia Studio. The eclectic mix of photographs by creators from all over the world included compelling images by Masahiro Nakata, who even travelled from Japan to attend the exhibition. Masahiro is a jewellery designer by trade, and a very successful one too, judging by the international attention he is getting. Go check out is stunning and very intricate work.

A local school built with a local workforce, down to the photographers who documented the construction progress for the Department of Education (us!).

As you can imagine, organising graduation events is a massive task for all the schools involved. It is also a major job for the Photopia Studio Team to get all the equipment and personnel needed to photograph four school graduations in three days. Here is the list of people, without whom it would not have been possible to create the wonderful photos of 2019 Year 12 graduates to you:

What did you get up to this weekend? It was a super-charged weekend for Photopia Studio, starting with Hansel and Gretel production from Adagio Dance Company at the Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre on Friday night. On Saturday and Sunday we photographed and filmed the Gladstone Gymnastic Club Annual Display called Out of this World. Then on Sunday night William raced off to photograph the Gladstone Regional Council's Christmas street party, attended by over 6000 Gladstone locals. William even found the time to photograph Blake Allen and LightViolet at Crow Street Creative on Saturday night.

Sad to see you leave Gladstone Regional Council Poya John Sobhanian, but we will always remember how supportive you have been of Photopia Studio and especially of our exhibition space and all the arty things we tried to do at Crow Street Creative. No doubt we will meet again before you step down.

The Photopia Team have been working tirelessly for the past two weeks, photographing and editing over 10,000 Gladstone Graduation images. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank-you to everybody, that made these events flow, from our wonderful, professional photographers, that captured all the exceptional images, the coordinators from each school, that were easy and helpful to work with, our superstar apprentice Goergi, that ran around like her head was cut off, our Administration and Customer Service Guru, Sally that managed to problem solve the issues and get them organised, and of course William, that kept his head, was cool, calm and collected throughout the whole process and worked tirelessly throughout the year to again make another Gladstone Graduation Week awesome. We look forward to working with the schools, students and photographers again next year.

We had the pleasure of capturing the amazing dancers from Dancekix. We have had some issues with missing dances from the gallery. Please make contact with sally at [email protected]. We apologise for any inconvenience. We have now addressed the issue going forward.

Congratulations to all the students that received an award at the Gladstone State High School Awards Evening last week. What a clever bunch of students we have in our local community. All student had their photos taken if they received an award. What a great gift for someone in your family leading into Christmas .   Head to the our gallery to see all the images of recipients.

William and Goergi attended the Gladstone PopCon on Saturday at Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre. It was a great turn out with heaps of people creating rather unique green screen photos. It was so much fun and such a massive success for a setup that was completely new to us.

Exciting day for William and Goergi today. Goergi's first helicopter flight. Wow what a view. Can anyone tell me where they are off to today. It's ok guys, I will stay in the office and work!!! Have an awesome day and I want to hear all about it tomorrow.

Congratulations to Photopia Studio’s very own William Debois on winning the Gail Sellers Local Artist Award on Saturday night during the opening of the 44th Martin Hanson Awards Exhibition. His piece titled “Shelving: Part #1, Ancestry” was select by judge Simon Elliott amongst a total of over 380 entries. Needless to see, William is delighted with this accolade and we are all very proud of him. You can see the truly stunning Martin Hanson Awards Exhibition at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum until 5th December.

Once again the lovely Gladstone Central State School P&C committee organised a breathtaking concert. See all the photos on our new online gallery at http://tiny.cc/photopia. Check your email for your access code sent to you by the school