![]() And no, it's never been easy for me to put into words.īut Gabriel does, with a series of this-and-that opposites. “It” is completely individual, everybody's experience of getting it is individual. As such, the experience can be overwhelming some say it feels religious, some that it's trippy, some happy, some sad, some very obvious and straightforward, some painfully obscure. The climax of the est training is “getting it”. In fact, the song's meaning is, literally, the point of EST. The final song, IT, is light on the fantasy – heavy on the EST. The album is the story of a fantasy trip (some say via LSD, thought getting high is not essential to the whole thing), interpreted through the philosophy of a 70s enlightenment movement called the EST training. 'Cos it's only knock and knowall, but I like it. Look across the mirror, before you choose de cide If you think that it's pretentious, you've been taken for a ride. It is inside spirit, with enough grit to survive. When you eat right fru it you see everything alive. It is in between the cages, it is always in a space. It is in the single's (sic) bar, in the distance of the face. It never stays in one place, but it's not a passing phase. Like the supper it is cooking in your hometown. McDougall is still taking photos of musicians to this day and now, 40 years after it all began, audiences get to see some of her award winning collection.Ĭanon galleries – Sun Studios in Sydney and Sky Light Gallery in South Melbourne – are the venues hosting the exhibition that helped shape the Australian Music industry.Just a little bit of it can bring you up or down. Her idea of fun was combining these two mediums and she’s been following her heart ever since. McDougall said she always felt that the best way to live life was to do the things you liked and from an early age those things were music, rock’n’roll and art. “I mean seriously, who starts their career selling their first photo to one of the biggest bands in the country? I still don’t quite know how that happened but I’m glad it did.” “I feel like I’ve had an angel watch over me throughout my life,” McDougall said. She said this was ground zero and kick-started her photographic career in the business of making music.įrom that moment on she has been creating striking pictures of iconic Australian music acts which include Cold Chisel, Divinyls, Richard Clapton, Noiseworks, Diesel, Jeff Duff, GANGgajang, Ross Wilson, Mental as Anything, Boom Crash Opera, Matt Finish and Chris Bailey to name a few, along with visiting international musicians like Tom Jones and Mick Jagger. In 1979 McDougall sold her first photo to one of the biggest band in the land, The Angels. ![]() In recognition of a 40 year career spent photographing iconic Australian and international musicians, McDougall was the recipient of the inaugural 2018 AWMA (Australian Women in Music Awards) for Best Photographer. Thanks to Canon Australia, McDougall will be presenting a retrospective exhibition of her life’s work in Sydney and Melbourne which will include photographic images of INXS, Crowded House, Paul Kelly and The Church along with many other images chosen from her extensive portfolio. The magazine, launched by Fairfax Magazines in 1984, used McDougall for many of its photo shoots in Sydney. McDougall worked with 1980s and 1990s with Australian music magazine Smash Hits when it was edited by Mediaweek’s James Manning. The classic Jagger/Richards song and album title “It’s Only Rock’N’Roll (But I Like It)” – sums up the life and working career of music photographer Wendy McDougall, so it is fitting that she has chosen the song as the title for her new exhibition. ![]()
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