| Brian Cassey Photographer Cairns Australia

… nice early Xmas pressies from the ‘Budapest International Foto Awards’ (BIFA), ‘The Capture Awards’ (hosted by Capture Magazine) and the ‘Dodho Color Awards’ 2024 (hosted by Dodho Magazine.)

The first two featured great results for my image “Alive – Bill & Michell’s Miraculous Escape From Cyclone Jasper”, which only a few weeks ago also took out the Clarion Awards (Queensland Media awards) ‘Best News Photograph’ honours.

Bill & Michell’s emotional image post Cyclone Jasper flooding was selected for the Bronze Award in the Editorial category of the Budapest International Foto Awards … and also in the top images list of the Documentary category of the Capture Awards and featuring in the new Summer edition of the print magazine.

Also in the Budapest awards, it was really gratifying to also see “Little Tuna” get a mention (an Honourable one – spelt here with a ‘u’ 😉 ) … the first time my portrait of “Little Tune” proprietor Kate Lamason with one of her ‘family’, has been recognised in awards. The portrait was made in the office of Kate’s highly successful Australian caught tuna business in Cairns and producing the pic left her work place more than a little damp.

Accompanying Bill & Michelle in the Capture Awards were two of my images “George at the Bus Stop” (George Skeene OAM) and “Bubblegum & Voices” (Kythie Yunkaporta discovering bubbles in Aurukun) in the People & Portrait category. Both have been mentioned in previous awards.

Then … on Christmas eve the beautiful new Dodho book “Color” arrived in my post office box. The hard cover, large format, nicely printed volume showcases the winners and top works from the 2024 “Color Awards” … and included my portrait “Generations- Aurukun” of Aurukun Elders Silas and Rebecca Wolmby with their great grand children Shalona and Keola. Dodho do do lovely books 😉 .

Images © Brian Cassey … from top … Budapest International Foto Awards 2024 (BIFA), The Capture Awards 2024, the book “Colors” by Dodho Magazine – hard cover collection of the best photographs from the 2024 Dodho Color Awards.

Good to get a nice run in ‘Galah’ … an independent print magazine documenting regional Australia and the people who live there … with story and images of a small Cairns business “Little Tuna”.

Published three times a year and beautifully produced ‘Galah’ magazine is full of fascinating stories and beautiful photography from around rural and remote Australia … the ‘stuff’ that these days is otherwise forgotten by other media.

My contribution to the current issue is images to accompany a story on “Little Tuna” … a small locally operated far north Queensland seafood business founded by director Kate Lamason. The story is entitled “This Little Tuna Went to Market” and explains her mission to make in-roads into the almost exclusive sales of foreign fished and produced tuna with her bottled premium preserved tuna sourced from Australian waters.

The jars of 100 percent Australian wild line caught tuna steaks are available in four flavours … Olive Oil, Chilli in Olive Oil, Spring Water and Lemon Myrtle … either in store or online. Kate and her products have won several business awards … and she is one of the finalists in the Australian AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award with the winner announced in Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday. Good Luck, Kate !

Sadly, ‘Galah’ chose not to include my very favourite image of Kate and a tuna amongst their published set … so I’m using that pic here below. Had some fun making Kate’s office rather ‘damp’ for the day.

Nice Chrissie Presents from … Budapest (BIFA), The Capture Awards and Dodho Color Awards …

Little Tuna & Galah …