'The Music' Photographer Markus Ravik Is Exhibiting In Brisbane

Brisbane-based photographer Markus Ravik — one of the brilliant individuals who generously donate their time, effort and talent to building The Music's voluminous catalogue of live photos — is the subject of the latest exhibition paying homage to next-level local artistry at Fortitude Valley's Beach Burrito restaurant.

Ravik — who has been a core part of The Music's Brisbane crew for several years, having captured countless glorious moments from a broad array of festivals (including Splendour In The Grass and Bluesfest) and gigs around town — will be the eatery's artist of the month all throughout September, but if you're local and want to get along to celebrate in style, Beach Burrito are holding an Opening Night exhibition from 6-9pm next Friday, 2 September.

According to a Q&A with event curator and host Alex Saba (Lusid Art), Ravik — a regularly featured player in our weekly photo retrospectives of the best shots in live music — became interested in photography after receiving his father's old Pentax 35mm camera as a high-schooler, leading to the young snapper taking up black-and-white film photography and developing a burgeoning passion to pursue a life as a professional shutterbug.

"I quickly fell in love with the entire process of developing my own film by hand, and enlarging prints - it’s a painstaking, but rewarding experience," Ravik told Saba. "Once I moved up to Brisbane I continued my studies at BCPA [Brisbane College of Photography & Art] and then decided to start trying to make a living from it all. It’s been a slow process but I’m still learning more every day and slowly getting there!"

With an ultimate dream of getting to comprehensively document the life of a band on tour — the ups, downs, on-and-off-stage madness of it all — Ravik has a voluminous catalogue of prints demonstrating his strengths as a live (and, more broadly, life) photographer, a selection of which will be for sale at the opening-night launch, with 100% of proceeds going directly to the artist himself.

For more information about the exhibition, see the Facebook event page. 

To explore more of Markus' work, see his Facebook page, website and Instagram.