Kent Johnson Photography | Redleaf Boulevardier Prints
Impressions of 'Redleaf' an exhibition of photographs by Kent Johnson.
Coral Coffee (Fable Cafe), 128 Darlinghurst Road Darlinghurst.
From the 18th of January until the 8th of February 2025
1 The message
2 Pontoon sunset
3 Silhouette swimmers
4 Swimming in the afterglow
5 Bougainvillea against the sky
6 Pontoon after dark (still life)
7 The dive
8 Friends on the pontoon in the afterglow
9 Elegance
10 Blue
11 Redleaf Boulevardier
Limited Edition of 35 + 2 AP available at various sizes – archival pigment ink Giclée prints on Canson Edition Etching Rag* – Price per print – unframed.
A4 / A2 Edition* of 25 - $450 / $650
A0 x 7 Edition* of 7 - $1800
1550cm x 110 cm Edition of 3 - $3800
To order prints contact Kent on
61 (0) 433 796 863 kent@artcommunication.com.au
Redleaf is beautiful. It's certainly not just me thinking this. Nearly every time I come here to go swimming and start walking down the steps to the pool. There is someone who has stopped walking up or down those steps. Arriving or leaving, that has stopped to take a picture of the view. Most people just use their phone. And it's not at all unusual for someone passing by to comment to the photographer, on just how beautiful it is, here. Unfortunately my phone-camera was not doing justice to the beauty of the scene. In my phones' snaps of the many scenes I saw - the colours were wrong, the qualities of the landscape and many details were lost or digitally altered - so my phone pictures merely became a note-to-self, come back and make some proper pictures!
I half relented. I started taking my old camera in an old bag with some old lenses, sometimes a tripod too. I swam. Then I sat on one of the benches and dried off. Becoming a Boulevardier (is there anywhere else in Australia where this term could apply more than at the beach?
I think not). Simply enjoying the panorama of people, water and sunlight, then I would take the camera out of the bag. I might take a walk along the boards over the water, or stand on the sand trying to catch a diver leaping from the pontoon. Set up the tripod as the sun slipped below the horizon.
The warm afterglow of the evening making the harbour a serene watery fairy tale dotted with colourful lights, with boats and figures silhouetted against the fading light. The beauty intensified, I waited, I clicked my shutter, curiously that old equipment lent something to the rendering of the experience and the pictures. Redleaf Boulevardier is the place and the feeling, and my hope is that when viewing these pictures you experience that beauty too.
To order prints please contact Kent on
61 (0)433 796 863 or kent@artcommunication.com.au
