The Word. – Russell Fleming Photographer

June this year, I exhibited on of my latest image series called, “A night in purgatory (its hard to live when your dead).

Exhibited at Raw Space galleries, in Brisbane, the exhibition went off successfully, and was featured in a 5 page spread in AXN Magazine, along with other publications like Qnews, and Style Magazine

The Exhibition is about a town of sinners who all had an axe to grind with someone else in the town, a night of murder and mayhem put them all into purgatory.

The images are all shot in a studio and then in post production, the images are transformed and the models are put in various locations that help tell the story.  

I get asked, how long it took to do all this makeup, and most peoeple are shocked when I tell them its all done in post production.

Whilst I’m not a huge fan of overly photoshopped images, I took it upon myself to do this series and make so many changes in photoshop, to see how far i could push my abilities as a photographer, and a photo-illustrator.

A night in purgatory, has now been scheduled to show at the Brunswick Street Galleries in Fitztroy, Melbourne.  The two week showing from Septemer 25 to october 8, will hopefully capture the imagination of  Melbourne cultural scene.

A Night in Purgatory (its hard to live when your dead)