Photographer Spotlight: Melbourne Ceili Camera
National Folk Festival 2022, Closing Concert. Images: Melbourne Ceili Camera
Bio.
Adam Purcell is a Melbourne-based folkie photographer.
A keen set dancer, Adam attended his first folk festival in 2007. A few years later he started taking his camera to festivals, and in 2017 he launched Melbourne Ceili Camera.
A versatile photographer, Adam is equally at home in front of a festival stage, in a social dance hall or shooting portraits on location or in the studio. He has worked with groups and organisations including:
His images have been used as CD artwork by bands such as Trouble in the Kitchen, the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club and the Royal High Jinx and his work has been published in The Age and the Midland Express newspapers.
In 2020, Adam published Music and Friendship, a book of photographs and interviews of people associated with the Irish cultural organisation Comhaltas.
Adam is based in Melbourne's northern suburbs.
Article Source: Melbourne Ceili Camera Website, June 2022.
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