Photography

Bethany has been photographing dance since 2022, with a focus on capturing candid backstage moments. Her preference is to use available light to capture atmospheric mood and embrace shadows and highlights.

She also regularly photographs literary events in Townsville.

Four teenagers in a dressing room. viewed from behind as they're in costume and prepare their makeup. You can see the face of one of them in the mirror
Mid-performance. a group of dancers lifts up a single dancer above all of them. the spotlight is on the dancer being lifted.
view from behind of a dancer getting ready in front of a mirror. She takes up a third of the image, the other two thirds are out-of-focus dressing racks
Three dancers get ready. Two are looking at a mirror out of shot as they slick their hair back. only one is in focus.
An elder conducts a smoking ceremony at a building site.
A young man is interviewed by a radio personality.
Baby turtle swimming in a clean pond
Young man in a Seaklink shirt and holding a rope leans out to look beyond the ferry
An older lady seated in front of an audience puts her handnee on her grandson's knee. he's seated next to her and smiling at her as she says something to him
close up of two cellos being played
An interviewer laughs as an author holds her hands out while talking. they'e in front of an audience at a book shop
Anna Funder writes her name on the title page of a book. You can only see her hands and the book
a writer signs her books. she's framed by the hands of others waiting in line for their copy to be signed
close up of three books by Tim Winton in the arms of someone waiting for them to be signed
a corroboree frog, yellow and black striped and very small, on the fingers of a scientist in light green gloves.
looking from behind at a woman on red plastic chairs looking across to the sea with two boats in the bay
a grandfather and grandson pose of the camera on a sunny day
a boy in his surf life saving stinger suit pulls an inflatable raft up the beach and smiles at the camera. you can see more inflatable rafts behind in him a race and people lined along the jetty
a woman singing into a microphone and playing guitar