Sealey Brandt is one of Asia’s top photographers. Her specialities are children and family portraits. OK, this sounds a bit dull. You’ve got images of corny, posed, traditional family pics – everyone in their best clothes complete with forced smiles.

Sealey doesn’t like taking that sort of picture. She wants to show the human side of the family. She captures the rare, real moments of people being themselves. She finds that point in time when the love a family has for one another is in their faces and their gestures.

Cameras take photographs, but it’s the people in front of and behind the lens that make a great picture. For Sealey the people are the most important part. Through her eye you see the beauty she sees in others. You see her fascination for people. Sealey enjoys inspiring her clients with her energy, inspiring them to share their passions, share their stories and show their love. She makes them feel comfortable and that’s when they show her those real, private and personal moments.

Memories are important to Sealey. She has great recollections of her own childhood that father Brian Brandt, ‘the Australian Godfather of Advertising Photography’, captured on film. One particular set of poster size pictures of Sealey as a child changed the course of her life. Looking at these timeless images 35 years after they’d been taken Sealey decided to leave the world of advertising photography and get back to her roots. She began creating pictures of families, using the same method as her father had. Sealey loves the feeling she gets from looking at the prints her father created. It’s this gloriously warm feeling that she wants to give to other people.

Sealey’s photographs are made to hang on the walls of family homes for generations. This is why she makes traditional prints of real photographs, crafted in a dark room on archival paper. No Photoshop required, these images are precious because they are real.

Sealey’s plans for the future include a book called ‘Beautiful Children of the World’. The book will be made up of some of her favourite pictures of the families she’s photographed over the years.

Hope to see you soon,
Sealey Brandt