Selfies at a Chinese New Year dinner

First Lady Lucy Turnbull with Joanna & Edmund Capon

When Sydney businessman Simon Chan announced that the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull would be the guest of honour at his Haymarket Chinese New Year Banquet, the event sold out that day. Simon has had this dinner many years (in association with various organisations) and usually he presents the guest of honour to the various tables to drink a toast. That's a traditional thing to do. So it was well behaved pandemonium when Simon took Malcolm around and 500 guests wanted to have a selfie taken with him. (you need to search Instagram for those selfies)

actor Jack Thompson & Malcolm Turnbull       William Yang & Shen Jiawei     Simon Chan & the PM

Lord Mayor Clover Moore points at something..and finds it's Chinese Dragon

One guest at Simon Chan's NY dinner was the prolific Sydney photographer William Yang (left) who has been documenting Sydney's nightlife for 40 years now. 
ABC TV just screened his documentary Friends Of Dorothy, a history of the Sydney Gay &Lesbian Mardi Gras.  Yang's current exhibition Stories of Love & Death is currently on show at Stills Gallery in Paddington as part of the Mardi Gras season.  Stills Gallery : 36 Gosbell St, Paddington NSW 2021 Phone:(02) 9331 7775

Spot The Difference #1

A new occasional series where we delve into the exciting world of the arts and ponder whether photography may influence art or vica versa.

Paintings by Polish artist  Marek Hospodarsky who is fascinated by the "banality of life". His work can be found at Saatchi Online, motto : Discover art, get discovered.
















Works by noted Australian photographer Petrina Hicks whose work can be found in the Art Gallery of NSW or The Stills Gallery in Paddington.  See more at Petrina's website.