Our favourite photos of 2022
It takes a village of
image-based creators to
make a magazine that
looks this good.
These are our favourite
photographs from 2022.
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Colonisation’s worst nightmare
This story got two award nominations this year – one from the MEAA’s state journalism awards, and one from the Walkley’s Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism. There’s an abundance of power in the words, written by Angela Skujins, the images capture the beguiling nature of Black Death IPC’s leader, Mulla Sumner. Not only the story of the Indigenous political club not one many people have heard before, Jack Fenby’s photos are most people’s first look into the club’s headquarters in Raukkan.
Photographer: Jack Fenby
My Adelaide with Juach Cyer
Rin Models is one of South Australia’s greatest success stories – perhaps because its founder, Juach Cyer, has invested so much depth of meaning into the business. It’s not success for the sake of success, Rin is instead a means for Juach to create opportunities in his community. For a guy who told me during the interview that he doesn’t care that much about fashion, he photographs exceedingly well.
Photographer: Jonathan van der Knaap
Chef vs Public BBQ: Maria and John Viojan
Way back in the lead up to Fringe 2022, we asked the founders of The Filipino Project to show us how to properly use a barbecue. Although they’re much more inclined to cooking over coals, they nailed the brief, resulting in photos that are good enough to eat.
Photographer: Dimitra Koriozos
Pitching at the edge
The point of this story was to get into the anxieties of running a start-up – always pursuing the next parcel of investment ($$$) that will allow you to further your project. As for the photography, Roger Malu was invited to a pitch meeting and given a brief something like the previous sentence. Pitch meetings do not happen in highly aesthetic spaces, but Roger found plenty of drama in his black-and-white images of the evening.
Photographer: Roger Malu
The good green drink
When we went to food writer Kate Richards and asked her what she might be interested in exploring for a CityMag piece, we were not expecting a love letter to Midori. Personally, the liqueur inspires deep cringe due to the sheer amount of it we drank in our last year of high school. But there was so much to explore, and it turns out some very talented bartenders love it and know how to use it. Plus it’s a really fun green – great for the ‘gram.
Photography: Andre Castellucci
Workhorse’s ghosts of Adelaide past
The Grace Emily’s band room has never looked so expansive. This was a beautiful, intimate gig, but Roman Wojtkowski managed to make it look immense.
Photographer: Roman Wojtkowski
The cost of going green
Angela Skujin’s report from a few hours north of Adelaide was vividly descriptive, as she often is, but the alien landscape out at Mount Gunson has to be seen to be believed.
Photographer: Angela Skujins
Robo-battle royale
We came to Emerald for their brilliant grainy, hyper-colour aesthetic, which we thought would pair well with a story about robots battling robots. We were right.
Photographer: Emerald
Read the story in print (or online in the New Year)
The lonely road to legal weed
Yes, I hear you – an illustration is not a photograph. But we couldn’t find a cannabis farm who would let us shoot on site, and we didn’t know any real anthropomorphic cannabis leaves we could dress up in a suit and put in business scenarios. For this, we needed the mind and hands of Owen Lindsay.
Illustration: Owen Lindsay
Style Sample—Future edition
For our future edition, our Style Samplers, Thomas McCammon and Sharmonie Cockayne, riffed on the concept of travelling into the New Year by photographing people in and around places of travel – the Railway Station, for example. They always manage to find a new way to see our city.
Direction: Sharmonie Cockayne
Photographer: Thomas McCammon
Read the story in print (it’ll go online in the New Year)
Where there’s muck, there’s money
When Angela Skujins and Jack Fenby get together for a story, magic happens. The duo were both interested in exploring the city’s waste management system, and of course there were going to be plenty of opportunities for epic photos of large machinery doing cool shit.
Photographer: Jack Fenby
Read the story in print (it’ll go online in the New Year)
CityMag Covers
Do we make a pretty magazine, or what?
Festivals cover:
Artwork: Dave Court
Failure cover:
Artwork: Emmaline Zanelli and Kurt Bosecke
Fashion cover:
Photographer: Jonathan van der Knaap
Direction, styling and set: Sharmonie Cockayne
Models: Awar Malek (Rin Models) and Isabella Cant (Azalea Models)
Makeup: Georgia Edgars
Hair: Janelle Zara
Styling assistant: Ava Viscariello
Studio: Soda Studio
Future cover:
Artwork: Mickey Mason
