TedX Sydney It was an honour to be part of the team of photography who captured images of the TedX Sydney event at Sydney Convention Centre in 2018.  Posting live from backstage, we had a huge team of shooter, runners and computer gurus ensuring that everything ran smoothly.   I have been a fan of TED Talk for many years, finding great inspiration and information from amazing speakers around the world.  Being there amongst the speakers and organisers was an energising experience.   TEDxSydney is the leading platform for the propagation of Australian ideas, creativity and innovation to the rest of the world. TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less) and covers almost all topics from science to business to global issues.   Here are some of my event photographs from TedX Sydney.   Magda Szubanski Magda silenced the TedX audience with her heart wrenching stories about her family’s past, her childhood and her public “coming out”.  She is an incredible speaker and entertainer.  It was a privilege to witness this fragile side to Magda as I grew up seeing her on TV as a confident and […] Read More
Product & Flat Lay Photography   Palmers Australia commissioned me to shoot product and flat lay photography – a collection of 20 images for their international advertising platforms.  The brief included both styling and photographing the bath and beauty products, which came very naturally to me because their branding style aligns closely with my own lifestyle – tropical, natural and fresh.   “Alicia is a delight to work with – efficient, a great communicator and the quality of her work speaks for itself. We’re so excited to use her images across our Australian and global digital campaigns in the coming months.” -Emma Clark  | Digital, Content, Community & Communications Executive at Palmers   Posting The Products For The Photo Shoot Palmers sent me a package of around 20 different products from their range of beauty and bath products.  I was given full creative control to style and arrange the products however I thought would work best visually, within the brief and branding guidelines.  This made it very easy for my client, as they could simply post the goods to me without having to put any additional time and energy into the photography.   Pre-Production Before the shoot I sat down […] Read More
Eco Photographer An interview of ethically focussed photographer, Alicia Fox in Muse Magazine Australia’s newest magazine for inspiration, self-help and culture, featured an interview about my work as an eco photographer.  The article explores my journey from being a teenager driven to fulfil my dreams of travel and photography, to the journey that entailed, learning about what is really important to me and utilising my profession to work towards a better world.   As you can read below, photography has taken me around the globe, discovering incredible cultures and learning from some of the most ancient and untouched peoples in the world today.  These lessons are priceless and I am extremely grateful for the journey thus far.   Being an eco photographer and living a sustainable lifestyle in both my professional and personal life is something extremely important to me, and something that I’ve written about in previous blog posts.  My work with indigenous groups and NGOs around the world has contributed to this greatly.  Once visiting these places and sitting to talk with the people effected by climate change, corporate greed, environmental destruction and so on, it’s impossible to turn a blind eye and un-care.   Everyone can make […] Read More
Yoga photography shoot in Crescent Head, Mid North Coast NSW.     Yoga Photography marries two of my greatest passions.  We did this styled photo shoot on our property in Crescent Head.  Bringing our own lives into the shoot made it simple and a lot of fun.   I have been practicing yoga for 17 years…exactly half of my life.  It has been on and off over the years but these days I find yoga such an important part of my life, physically, mentally and spiritually.  I can’t imagine ever going without it again.  It has also lead me to great friends, beautiful destinations and amazing experiences.         I am so grateful for my weekly yoga meet up with my good friends.  We practice an hour of yoga each Sunday morning, followed by half an hour of meditation.  Afterwards we share a pot (I mean a five litre pot) of chai, with plates fruit and nuts.  It is a sacred part of every week for me.  I’m also doing two classes a week at The Yoga Shala in Port Macquarie.   These photos are from a recent shoot I did for I am That Yoga, a yoga […] Read More
In December we saw some of the worst bush fires ever in Crescent Head.  Over 3 weeks I photographed the fires that reached the edge of our property as helicopters, fire trucks and even planes fought to keep the houses and people in our community safe.   I’ve lived here for 3 years, after living and working as a photographer in Sydney, Melbourne and overseas.  I knew the day would eventually come when bushfires would be here.  The clock had been ticking.   The firefighters and RFS did an amazing job and we are extremely grateful for their hard work and skill.  Below are a few of the photos from the 2017 Big Hill Bush Fires in Crescent Head.                 Read More
As you may have read in previous posts, while I was in India I volunteered with a wonderful organisation in Jaipur, I-India photographing 7 of their projects.  For my recent photography exhibition, One World through which I raised money for I-India, I created these information sheets to help communicate to visitors the life-changing work I-India are doing.   Please take a read through, and let me know if you would like any more information about the organisation or my time with them.  You can also watch my short video about the experience HERE.   Namaste!         Click on the posters to open them at a large resolution   See my posts about I-India’s village school and Marble village school  Read More
Tastings on Hastings Photography by Port Macquarie Photographer Alicia Fox     Tastings on Hastings is one of the highlights on the Port Macquarie calendar. This year I was thrilled to be invited to Near River Produce‘s farm west of Wauchope to photograph their renowned Meals in the Fields.  This pop up dining experience presented guests with a genuine paddock to plate experience thanks to Mid North Coast chefs Carla Jones, former head chef at 4 Fourteen, and her partner, Richie Dolan, former head chef from Chiswick. Near River specialises in ethically raising a rare breed heritage pork on pasture and growing seasonal vegetables.       Read More
It seemed surreal to be standing in the middle of in an entire village made of marble.  But these weren’t palaces or majals.    The inhabitants of this marble village in Rajasthan, India are desperately poor and lack basic amenitites like running water and electricity in their homes.  Traditionally nomads, these families chose to set up their homes in the middle of a dusty industrial zone so they could repurpose, re-use and upcycle the waste from an adjacent factory to build dwellings.   I visited the village with I-India, a not-for-profit organisation in Rajasthan, India.  The dedicated staff provide education and support to some of Rajasthan’s most desperate children, feeding 3000 kids a daily meal without which their bellies would remain painfully empty.  I-India provides services to this area.                                               I-India set up a school for this community, as there were no educational facilities available to them in the area.  To see the basic facilities that these children learn in with such gratitude was so inspiring.  Read about it HERE     If you’d like to read about […] Read More
I’ve photographed at the Birpai Local Aboriginal Land Council in Port Macquarie a number of times and I always love returning to this welcoming space.  The centre is set amongst the bush with native plants endemic to the area, which local Birpai people can demonstrate many traditional uses for.  Every time I’m there, I learn more about the local culture of our First Nations people, and about the Birpai/Dunghutti country that I’m so lucky to live in.   I was photographing for a not-for-profit organisation, FCAN (The Financial Counsellors’ Association of NSW Inc).  FCAN was in Port Macquarie for a conference with volunteers and suppliers from across the state.  They were treated to cultural performances and demonstrations from local indigenous children and women.  The sting ray dance performed by the ladies is always a highlight – it’s so serene and calming.   Following the dances, everyone (including me) learnt traditional weaving with Trish.  The same technique can be used to weave jewellery or baskets, using the lomandra grass.   After weaving, Rhonda walked us around the garden to learn about plants and their uses.   Lemon myrtle was one of the local bush foods used to make these delicious deserts. […] Read More
  I didn’t realise we had arrived at the school as the car pulled up outside a small shack in the middle of a dusty community.  I was with I-India for an NGO photography shoot, a small grassroots organisation based in the desert city of Jaipur, India.   As I’ll explain in another blog post, a series of coincidences had lead me to contact I-India and offer my services as a volunteer photographer.  Due to changing financial times, the not for profit organisation has seen a decline in donations from its international funders over the past couple of years which means they will probably have to cut up to 30% of their projects in the next year.     On the ground, this means that hundreds of vulnerable children will go hungry.  I met some of these children.  They are as innocent and loveable as any children I’ve met, but the fact that they were born into poverty in India means that their fate is very different from that of children where I’m from, Australia. I-India has saved them from child labour, child marriages, homelessness, begging on the streets and more. The organisation’s dedicated staff runs a range of truly […] Read More