Jarrad Seng

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Jarrad Seng (born 2nd of 1988) is an Australian photographer and filmmaker.

He works in Perth, and his hobbies often coincide with music, travel, and volunteering.

Seng has worked with English singer Passenger on seven tours between 2012 and 2015, as well as producing many of his music videos.

Seng has also toured with American band Matchbox Twenty and Australian folk singer Stu Larsen. He has been to both Tanzania and Iceland twice for his personal photographic work.

Seng has held four solo exhibitions — Portraits of Tanzania (2011), Alltervatn (2013), Spirit of the Masaai (2014) and The Space Between (2015) — as well as a joint exhibition Parallels (2016) with Perth-based artist Amok Island. Seng was internationally recognized in December 2014 after a prank video in which he walked around a music festival disguised as American DJ Steve Aoki went viral.

Seng was a finalist in the 2013 WA Youth Awards' Propel Youth Arts Award category.

Seng appeared in season four of Australian Survivor, which premiered in late July 2017.

Early life

Seng was born in Newman, a remote Western Australian mining town. Kim, his father, is from Malaysia, and Alice, his mother, is a Christmas Islander of Chinese descent. Seng and his family migrated to Mandurah when Seng was three years old. He attended primary and high school at Frederick Irwin Anglican School, graduating in 2005.

Seng began studying law at the University of Western Australia (UWA), but soon found it did not suit his creative instincts and moved to an arts and commerce degree. Seng served at St George's College, the undergraduate college he was attending, from 2008 to 2011, including Arts Representative on the College Club Committee, Student Director of Music, and Arts tutor in 2011.

Personal life

Seng has been dating Rebecca Williams, a former Miss Universe WA finalist, since 2015.

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Career

Despite Seng's keen interest in photography, he never had any formal photography training. Seng began shooting in 2009 while writing and editing for Pelican, the university newspaper. Seng's pass was accidentally ticked on the West Coast Blues & Roots Festival's media accreditation form, despite the fact that he was only supposed to be there as a writer. Seng borrowed a friend's camera and researched how to take photographs on the internet. Seng decided to buy his own camera and continue shooting photography because the photos turned out well.

Seng soon discovered that photography would extend his interests in music, travel, and volunteering. Seng says he "fell in love with the prospect of capturing the beauty of the world on film" while volunteering at a Nepalese school in 2009. Seng began a marketing internship at the Perth International Arts Festival in 2009, allowing him to photograph events and start to get his work noticed.

Seng has been working as a tour photographer for a variety of musicians and bands since 2012. Seng has been the tour photographer for English singer Passenger on seven tours between 2012 and 2015. Seng appeared on Australian rock band Matchbox Twenty on their Australian tour in 2013. Seng's photographs and written accounts of the tour were included in Going North, an ebook that was released. On his 2014 European tour, he performed with Australian folk singer Stu Larsen.

Seng has produced several music videos for Passenger, as well as music videos for Emma Stevens, Stu Larsen, and Patrick James. Seng's photo of an Amity Affliction concert in Perth won the 2014 Monster Children Photo Comp in the music segment, earning him $5,000. Seng's short film directed by Seng to promote North Queensland in April 2015 won a competition run by Tropical North Queensland Tourism, receiving a $20,000 reward pack.

Seng was a finalist in the 2013 WA Youth Awards for the Propel Youth Arts Award category. In the 2017 Australia's Top 50 Influencer Awards, he came in 32nd. Seng was the subject of an ABC program On Assignment, which was announced on ABC iview in September 2015. In a video released in March 2017 promoting the Microsoft Surface Book, he was also included.

Seng went to Tanzania in 2011 to work at a school and orphanage. Seng will fly to several villages and photograph candid portraits of the Maasai people over the weekend. Portraits of Tanzania, his first solo exhibition, was born from the photographs.

Seng returned to Iceland in 2012 to photograph the country's volcanic river systems. He hired a two-seater plane and photographed out the plane's window. "My body hated opening the window every time." It was painful to open the window. It meant a rush of cold air would have arrived. [...] "I had to prepare myself up and really pick my moments by the end," Seng described. The photographs were on display in Alltervatn, Seng's second solo show in 2013.

Seng returned to Tanzania in 2013 to help film a short documentary about the orphanage and shooting more portraits, this time focusing on the Maasai children. The portraits were on view in Seng's third solo exhibition, Spirit of the Maasai, in 2014. At the 2015 Winter Los Angeles Film Awards, My African Home won the Best Documentary Short Award. Seng also tracked down the Maasai people he had photographed two years ago and presented them with canvas prints of their earlier selves while in Tanzania.

Seng returned to Iceland in 2015 to photograph a series of self-portraits against the country's landscape. The portraits, Seng, explore "the sensation of being both significant and completely insignificant in the presence of nature's grandeur." The Space Between is James Bond's fourth solo exhibition.

Seng's first joint exhibition, Parallels, took place in December 2016, together with Perth-based artist Amok Island. Seng's aerial photographs of Rottnest Island's coast were included in the exhibition, as well as Amok Island's interpretations of the photographs as minimal, geometric works.

Seng has participated in the annual Windows of the City competition, which sees Perth creatives partnering with a local company to produce a window display for Perth. Seng worked with artist Annabelle Gordon on a paper cut display for the Sneaky Monkey Cafe in Raine Square in 2013. Seng spent 24 hours photographing people on Perth's streets for his 2014 window display, titled Perth24 — A Portrait of the City. Seng created a photo exhibition for The Flour Factory, a bar on Queen Street in 2015.

Seng created The Hidden Sound, a planned series of music gigs in 2014, where the musician and venue remained unknown until the last minute. Kate Miller-Heidke, an Australian singer-songwriter, appeared at the first gig in August 2014.

Seng's prank video, which he posted on YouTube and Facebook, went viral in December 2014. Seng is seen walking around Perth's Stereosonic music festival disguised as American DJ Steve Aoki, whom Seng is often mistaken for. While the true Steve Aoki is on stage, festivalgoers can be seen shouting out Aoki's name and shooting with Seng and Seng. Aoki was caught on the video and the following weekend at the Melbourne Stereosonic, Seng, and Aoki, where Seng dressed up as Aoki and Aoki posing as his photographer.

Following Nepal's earthquakes, Seng raised $10,000 for the Australian Red Cross by satisfying many demands from individuals and businesses over a 24-hour period, including photographing, teaching photography students, and streaking through Hay Street in Perth, Australia.

Seng competed in season four of the reality game show Australian Survivor, which was shot in Samoa and launched on July 30th. He was the 13th contestant to vote out, taking it to day 36 and becoming the first member of the jury. Seng recounted his time on the program, saying, "It's so weird to be a participant on this show that I've been watching for years and years." It was amazing, but it was also brutal, and that's what I loved."

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