Baeley Amalfi is a Perth-based creative whose photographic work moves between location scouting and creative architectural / landscape photography. He creatively documents Western Australian places, while providing useful images to incoming film, TV and creative projects. Much of this work is drawn from his own screen projects, or captured while scouting and producing accross the state.
Completed 2023
A collection of photos by Baeley Amalfi and Yusef Hourani, showcased at Perth Centre for Photography’s Collective Exhibition. The work features studio lighting by Luke Hacket & Alex Gibbs.
Yusef Hourani was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1999. After high school, Yusef struggled to find local mentorship for his classical art form, and moved to the city of Florence, Italy where he formally studied the classical method of academic drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art under the direction of Daniel Graves. It was there in Florence that he also studied the practice of Iconography under the private tutoring of Sister Giselle Cappuccini, a nun from the Fraternités de Jérusalem based in the Badia Fiorentina Church in the historical center of the city.
Having finished his studies in 2022, the COVID pandemic started and Yusef took the last scheduled flight from Rome’s suddenly empty airport back home to Fremantle, Western Australia. Despite his unique training and mesmerising art, Yusef struggled to find a home for either his work or himself while back in his hometown.
Originally planned between coffee and walks in their hometown of Freo, Baeley and Yusef captured his last few months in Australia before departing again, this time for a program in London, less than a year later.