SMH, The Age and Instagram launch moving portrait series with Australia’s political leaders
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, in partnership with Instagram, have captured a never-before-seen moving portrait series of Australia’s political leaders.
The series brings a uniquely artistic perspective to the hotly contested political landscape.
Captured at 9 frames per second by Walkley Award-winning Fairfax Media photographer Nic Walker, this series will showcase the prime minister, opposition leader and other political leaders reacting to visual prompts – from images of family, to other world leaders and factional competitors.
Throughout modern history, photographs have revealed and connected the truth behind the politics in an accessible medium to audiences around the globe. These portraits convey the human element of our political leaders that Australians ask for, but rarely see.
The series has been released exclusively on The Age and Sydney Morning Herald’s Instagram accounts, these portraits are the first time our leaders have been captured in this groundbreaking, artistic and immersive fashion.
From the Oscars and the U.S. Presidential candidates, to the Cannes Film Festival and the MTV Europe Music Awards, people have used Instagram to capture the essence of major cultural moments around the world.
Smartphones have found their way into the pockets of generations of Australians, and that has affected the way they communicate ideas, moments and stories. With over 500m accounts around the world, Instagram is the way that we now visually experience elections, and this series is a world class example of giving voters an insight into the more human side of their political leaders.
As smartphones have evolved the way we communicate, so too has the way we think about art and photography. Whether the US Presidential Primaries, the Met Gala, the Cannes film festival, or the NBA Draft, moving portraits posted to Instagram have synthesized the main players of these cultural moments into short, creative vignettes.
Instagram believes that when people experience events through images, it can expand their understanding and deepen the stories being reported.
The moving portrait series will be revealed in this order:
Monday 27: Albo & Bishop. Plibersek, Di Natale
Tuesday 28: Wong, Pyne, Joyce, Xenophon
Wed 29: Shorten & Turnbull
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