The Celebration Dinner

Spring Park Farm Shearing Shed

August 2013

A dinner was held at the end of the Hunting For Foxes photo shoots to celebrate and share the outcomes of the first stage of this wonderful project.
A typical country shearing shed was transformed in an afternoon after the weather conditions hindered the previous plans to hold this dinner in an outdoor location. With much community spirit and many helping hands the shed was looking a million bucks and ready to host fifty women who had participated in the project.
With the mystery and curiosity built to a climax  over the past eight weeks no one had seen each others final images and this night was the night to reveal some of the images (but still not the final one - that was left until the exhibition!!) among this diverse group of women.
A large screen had been set up for us to project the photos onto so everyone could get a great view of the fantastic images that Carlo had captured of this group of women. Everyone sat back, with their drinks topped up ready to view the photos.  Participants were speechless to begin with as they began to identify and recognise each participant as they were projected onto the screen. People were amazed at the transformation of some participants and that they were hardly recognisable.

The food was catered for by Kathy who had travelled from Perth to serve us up some magnificent and tasty cocktail style finger food that she was able to cook onsite. It was definately the yummiest food I have eaten in a shearing shed!!

Some of the props from the photo shoots were brought along on the night and there was plenty of fun had by the participants who were reliving the fun and excitement of dressing up and they had certainly lost any fear of being in front of a camera!!