| Brian Cassey Photographer Cairns Australia

Dodho ‘Fine Art’ … Again …

January 18, 2026

… really cool to once again be selected as a ’Top 25’ Finalist’ in the International Dodho Photography ‘Fine Art’ Awards … and soon to be published in their wonderful hard cover beautifully produced volume “Fine Art – The Best Photographs”. The work selected in the collection is one I am fond of … “Rain Over Black Mountain” … which I was lucky enough to make a few years back from an aircraft just before landing in Cooktown.

The pic (top) has a little bit of history too …

It was selected as a ‘Finalist’ in the highly prestigious (but now sadly no more) ‘Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize’. It was also a feature of my latest little exhibition “Achromatic” at ‘The Hound’ bar in Edge Hill late last year.

I’m a bit of a fan of Dodho’s support of photographers’ work in their awards and their great books … they seem to attract a really high level of imagery and do a great job of featuring beautiful images from some of the best photographers from around the planet on their website and in their publications. It’s the third time in a row I’ve been fortunate to feature in these ‘Fine Art’ awards and book. The 2024 and 2023 selected images are also here and very different in subject and concept to this years … “Mother Africa – Aurora” (below left) and “Bonn – Asking the Question” (below right).

Currently have nine Dodho volumes containing my images across the variety of Portraiture, Color, Fine Art and Monochrome … and this latest will make it a nice round ‘ten’ 🙂 … Thanks Dodho !

You can see the all new Dodho ‘Fine Art’ finalists here … https://www.dodho.com/winners-fine-art-awards/

Image © Brian Cassey

“The Dogs of Sai Kung” in ‘Dodho’ Magazine …

April 14, 2025

Very nice to see my pic essay “The Dogs of Sai Kung” make an another long overdue re-appearance … this time in the prestigious photographic magazine ‘Dodho’.

I made this pic essay some years back whilst in Hong Kong documenting a far more serious photo story on the former UK colonies cage and coffin homes. The ‘Dogs’ essay was made when on a ‘day off’ at the HK seaside playing with lots of colourful canines.

The essay does however illustrate a more serious issue … and the rationale is explained in my caption …

“ The Chinese have long been accused of devouring “anything that moves,” including meals made from our beloved canines. However, the fishing village of Sai Kung in the New Territories of Hong Kong has embraced dogs as members of the family with a passion bordering on obsession. In the 1970s, the Hong Kong government actively discouraged the population from having too many children. The policy worked, and today, Hong Kong has one of the world’s lowest birth rates of 0.7 per woman of childbearing age (2022) … far below the replacement rate of 2.1. To compensate, locals have taken to spoiling their pet woofers as an integral and substitute part of the family. On Sundays, locals parade their pooches in prams along the picturesque waterfront, where they join their human “parents” for exercise and even lunch at the tables of seafood restaurants. The town is awash with dog boutiques where you can buy your precious pooch the latest fashions, and even a doggy bakery offering individual doggy pies and other freshly baked treats.
Lavish attention is paid to grooming, and competition is fierce just like with human babies.”

Here below are just a few of the images from the twenty published in my ‘Dodho Magazine’ essay. To see the entire essay go to my website at … https://www.briancasseyphotographer.com/…/dogs-of-sai…/ … or just go to the publication in ‘Dodho’ at … https://www.dodho.com/sai-kungs-dog-obsession-through…/

The essay first appeared in the UK Daily Telegraph Weekend Magazine with the headline ‘Barking Mad’. You may find it here … https://www.briancasseyphotographer.com/2012/09/.

I also made a light hearted short film using these doggy images (2 minutes 33 seconds) which may be found here … https://www.briancasseyphotographer.com/play/2013/02/the-dogs-of-sai-kung-2/

Images © Brian Cassey

"The Dogs of Sai Kung" - photo essay by © Brian Cassey Photographer - made in the village of Sai Kung in Hong Kong - pub listed in Dodho Magazine

A Few New ‘Award Updates’ …

January 13, 2024July 25, 2023

A few nice recognitions over the past few weeks … 🙂

Firstly … so nice to once again be selected as a Finalist in the Perth Centre for Photography’s ‘IRIS’ portrait awards … a biennial award that my work has now been selected for the third time in a row. The actual finalist works chosen this time are still a necessary secret … but all will be revealed when the exhibition of finalist and winners works opens at PCP’s Perth gallery on September 1st. Fortunately I will be in Perth at that time en route back from the UK.

PCP describes the ‘IRIS’ awards so … “The IRIS Award celebrates excellence in portraiture photography, revealing portraits that are unique, original and conceptually stimulating. IRIS has been running for 18 years, with the inaugural exhibition held back in 2003”.

I missed seeing my last finalist work on the ‘IRIS” exhibition wall in 2021 …“Tears for George Floyd … 8 Minutes and 46 Seconds” … due to the Covid-19 pandemic … so I’m looking forward to being there for this one.

Arguably the one of the nicest surprises was the news that my portrait of the now sadly departed 100 year old Alf ‘Popeye’ Neal OAM entitled “100 Years & 3 Weeks” was selected in the ‘Best 25’ of the Dohdo International photography magazines “Portrait – Best Photographers of 2023” collection. The pic of Alf is now nicely included in the large format hard cover year book “Portrait” (see top image below) and will also be exhibited in an online ‘Best 25’ collection for the next year.

(The same image of Alf was earlier this year also selected as the Winner of the ‘People’ category of the 19th International Pollux Awards.)

In the 16th International Color Awards announced recently my works were selected as ‘Honourable Mentions’ in both the ‘Portrait’ category (with image “Covid Vax & Ice Cream”) and the ‘Children of the World’ category (with image “Veronica – Where Home Brew Kills”) … whilst my image “Scooter” also made the finalist cut in ‘Portrait’. See the trio of images below. All three have been acknowledged in previous awards.

Lastly in ‘new’ award dispatches … “Covid Vax & Ice Cream” again resonated when it was selected as a finalist in the ‘People’ category of the 2023 ‘ReFocus Colour Awards‘.

A pleasant few weeks … 🙂