For That Moment

I want Sealey to capture those moments of my life.

Sealey Brandt always manage to capture that moment in life.

She is my favourite photographer for a long while.

If you like your moments to be preserved for life, she has the passion and you will love her work.

And I simply enjoy them.

Despite the passion, with a very well known father (Brian Brandt was an extremely well-known photographer in Australia and his photos have become late 20th century Australian photographic icons), Sealey was completely daunted by the photographic industry and their perceptions of her father.

So when she finished school, Sealey eventually began working for an advertising company as a writer, 'It was very strange, ' Sealey laughs, 'I went to my interview with a folio of photographs, and very few writing examples!'

After a year with the agency, Sealey knew that as much as she tried, she couldn't avoid a future as a photographer.

Following her inner voice Sealey put herself through Photography School, before embarking on her European sojourn (almost obligatory for young Australians).

In London and Paris, Sealey gained her experience as a photographic assistant working for some well-known and respected photographers and continued with this career when she returned to Australia two years later.

It was as an Art Buyer for Batey Advertising that persuaded Sealey to come to Singapore twelve years ago.

However she still wasn't taking photographs, and although she was working closely with her favourite world-wide photographer's, she couldn't help moonlighting and photographing portraits and weddings.

Few years ago, Sealey took the plunge and opened her own studio at Wilton Close.

'The peace and serenity puts everyone totally as ease', Sealey says, 'And If the studio doesn't suit some of the children, I just whip them into the garden - that works a treat!