{"id":501855,"date":"2026-02-24T22:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501855\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:37:16","slug":"street-photographer-gains-following-while-capturing-hobarts-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501855\/","title":{"rendered":"Street photographer gains following while capturing Hobart\u2019s heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

What started as daily walks for a 26-year-old Hobart bartender has grown into a social media sensation, shining a spotlight on the people and moments that define life in the city.<\/p>\n

The photographer, known as Jacko, began his daily habit 68 days ago as a personal challenge to improve his street photography skills and document it.<\/p>\n

His casual photography has evolved into a mission to celebrate Hobart\u2019s diverse personalities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in photography and thought I\u2019d just document the journey and make a couple of videos about the people of Hobart,\u201d Jacko told Pulse.<\/p>\n

\"\"His social media following is growing as he continues to document everyday life in Hobart. Image \/ Jacko Takes Photos<\/p>\n

His project focuses on capturing positive, authentic moments rather than sensationalised content.<\/p>\n

Jacko spends four to five hours each day walking through the city, camera in hand.<\/p>\n

\"\"His social media following is growing as he continues to document everyday life in Hobart. Image \/ Jacko Takes Photos<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t stress enough how important it is to make sure that I\u2019m making the content in a positive way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually want to make sure that people are presented in a really positive way because I think that Tasmanians are quite proud of being from Tassie.\u201d<\/p>\n

His Instagram following has exploded to more than 5,000 followers in recent weeks, with videos featuring the conversations with subjects of his portraits proving most popular with audiences.<\/p>\n

The Hobart local, who has lived in the city for 14 years after growing up in Launceston, sees his work as countering negative perceptions of Tasmania.<\/p>\n

\"\"His social media following is growing as he continues to document everyday life in Hobart. Image \/ Jacko Takes Photos<\/p>\n

\u201cWe often get ostracised by the rest of Australia. I think it was more to show off all the different characters that we have and celebrate them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While maintaining his bartending job, Jacko has aspirations in photojournalism and hopes to eventually tell stories around the world. <\/p>\n

For now, he remains focused on his daily commitment to documenting Hobart.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the people of Hobart and I love being a vessel to get the people out there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jacko (pictured) began his daily photography challenge in Hobart just over two months ago. Image \/ Jacko Takes Photos<\/p>\n

\u201cHobart and Tassie deserve to be shown off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What started as daily walks for a 26-year-old Hobart bartender has grown into a social media sensation, shining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-501855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}