I know I'm constantly surprised by the passage of time, but still: how is it twenty years since Peter Jackson's King Kong premiered at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington?! And yet, here we are. More about that day on my blog… www.robertcatto.com/blog-archive...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

For those who’ve followed my silent film research into Kiwi actor/director @rupertjulian.com over the past 20-25(!?) years now, this is the kind of unbelievable dream find I’ve always hoped for…!

Name a movie that takes place where you’re from:

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/

Some new production photography featuring Matilda Ridgway and Iolanthe in The Edit, written & directed by Gabrielle Scawthorn, playing at @belvoirst.bsky.social here in Sydney until 26 Oct. Great script, amazing cast, and a beautiful production!

Ruin a song by adding the word “literally” to the title: And Your Bird Can Literally Sing Let’s Literally Dance Literally Call Me, Maybe

Make a band singular: Panic! In Your Headphones

Got 7 minutes to spare? Disarmed is a GREAT, beautifully shot, surprising short film from my amazing friend Lucy Green, that's now on Youtube--and if you look REALLY close, you might even see my name in the credits. (As a photographer this time, not an extra!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKy...

I was back in Canada a few months ago, and this photo essay is how I spent my summer vacation. (Well, part of it, anyway!) Now live at the Kage Collective site... www.kagecollective.com/kage-stories...

I don’t know if it’s a flex, but the first concert I ever went to was the night they filmed this video, at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. youtu.be/J5ebkj9x5Ko

And nobody in all of Oz No wizard that there is or was Is ever gonna bring me down

Post someone who looks good in a hat.

Post someone who looks good in a hat.

Age verification? I was there when Duran Duran filmed the video for The Reflex, at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.

So I've seen a few posts recently about it being 50 years since A Chorus Line first came out, which of course sent me digging into my archives to see what I could find from the Darlinghurst Theatre Company production(s) here in Sydney, in 2020 and 2022...! www.robertcatto.com/blog-archive...

what perfect album came out when you were sixteen? (I’ll limit myself to the ones I wore out on cassette at the time…)

Part II of the @bernardzuel.bsky.social interview with @tamineilson.bsky.social — and her astounding, outstanding new album came out on Friday, so get into it! Go on, you deserve a little treat.

Nice to work with Mark Sutcliffe and Opera Australia this week on Strictly Baz Luhrmann at Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, with this group of absolute stars—Phoebe Panaretos, Tim Draxl, Alinta Chidzey and Ryan Gonzalez, with the Opera Australia orchestra.

Can we all just take a moment to remember this brave theatre sign writer who tragically passed away whilst doing the job he loved.

The great Canadian-Kiwi musician @tamineilson.bsky.social is a vocal powerhouse, and (lucky for me) a good friend as well. Check out this interview, but also waste NO time in listening to her latest single, Foolish Heart—this new album is all killer, no filler.

It's been far too long between essays at the Kage Collective, but we're back to regular posting--hopefully once a week for the rest of the year. Here's my first one for 2025, about the traditional Australian election sausage sizzle...

This is so good, and useful, and funny—worth it just for the review of Dumb Girl of Portici, and Rupert Julian in short shorts. Enjoy! moviessilently.com/2019/08/11/t...

So many spectacular reviews for Posh by Laura Wade, directed by Margaret Thanos at the Old Fitz Theatre here in Sydney—it’s only natural it’s nearly sold out! Worth getting in while you can, for this hilarious and searing indictment of wealth and privilege. An amazing cast, and a great production.

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. (I can’t remember what the first album I ever bought was, but the first RECORD was the 45rpm single of this…!) youtu.be/dWRWYYt47RI

Cause baby you’re a dire wolf How does this gene splicer work? Make ‘em all white, white, white Put some bark into their bite, bite, bite

I realised recently that it’s been FAR too long since I posted anything on my blog about photographing the arts; but in rectifying that I’m cheating slightly, and republishing an interview I did with Australian performer Jennifer Trijo a few years ago, in the early days of the pandemic. Here it is…!

Being the kind of person who has literal folders of tickets and programmes going back 35 years(!!), I loved this article.

Sorry to hear today that jazz legend Roy Ayers has passed; he came to New Zealand for the Wellington Jazz Festival in 2009 when I was their photographer, and I was in complete awe of his playing. Incredible sensitivity and sound, with intense depth of feeling in his hands.

I never remember to get any behind-the-scenes of me working, so it's great when the producer does--and then I get to post the setup & the shot! The rehearsal room at Belvoir Theatre looks a little different when you add lighting, and a bit of amber gel…

Not important in the world right now, but this is something I just found in my files--possibly the first paid, printed photo I took, 25 years ago this month. Ironically, at the time I was working five different freelance jobs (including editing the flyer it's printed on!), but photography took over.

britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo... #photography

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Choosing to see this morning’s breakfast as an auspicious omen for the year to come, rather than a sign of the impending apocalypse…happy new year, everyone!

Thanks to @robertcatto.com, we started watching The Franchise. So much fun but pretty traumatising for the people watching who had actually been through those megashoots.

What Christmas movie do you watch every year? 🎄🎬

I keep posting about work right before the holidays, but I guess I've been busy over the past couple of months! So, here's another one--for the Sydney Chamber Choir’s 2025 season. You can see the choir a bit more clearly here (and read about the concerts!): www.sydneychamberchoir.org/2025-program

It's the final weekend for Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn at the Hayes Theatre here in Sydney (featuring Blue Skies of course, plus many other great tunes); so here's a few more production images to celebrate the end of a great show. And then when Holiday Inn closes, we all get to go on...holiday?

It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me.

Nice to be working with Mark Sutcliffe and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on the weekend, at Sydney Coliseum -- and a nice way to finish work for the year, too. (Well, it will be when I finish editing the rest of the images tomorrow, anyway...!)

This sounds fascinating—a new film from @asifkapadia.bsky.social

They can’t BOTH be Keith David and David Keith at the same time, can they? Is that Schroedinger’s Keith?

To paraphrase a former New Zealand prime minister, J*rd*n P*t*rs*n moving to the US raises the average IQ of both countries.

"Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack playing in your head." (Hard to choose between this and A Room With A View, really.)

I mentioned the production of Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (featuring the song "Blue Skies", appropriately enough) at the Hayes Theatre here in Sydney, now here are a few of my production images along with some lovely quotes from reviewers. For info (& tickets): hayestheatre.com.au/event/irving...

Just because I haven’t seen people talking about it, I quite enjoyed Armando Iannucci’s savage new satire The Franchise, with Himesh Patel, Daniel Bruhl, Richard E Grant and Jessica Hynes (amongst others). Think Veep, but set behind the scenes of a Marvel movie... www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oc...

I can’t quite pin down what it is about this profile that makes me think it miiiiiiight not be a real person, but…

Realising too late what my first post on this platform should have been:

@jackyan.bsky.social Jack Yan!!