A sample of all the lovely people I have had the pleasure of photographing over the years. Mostly arts, theatre and creative types.
The combination of film negatives and camera-phone photography in “My Inner Monologue is Analogue” creates playful and engaging photos full of mysterious textural layers and reflections. These positive negatives allow impossible objects to exist together in one place from two times. The images look simultaneously to the future and the past.
Shooting theatre is one of my great passions. The challenge of anticipating the action, of capturing the drama and pathos, it's a most satisfying experience.
Stencography is a process I developed whereby images are printed directly onto film inside the camera. This allows me to blur themes and worlds and create images that embrace chance and elemets of street art and photography.
No photochopping involved!
Peeps who do stuff to entertain us. Talented. Fun. Give them money.
I've been shooting film on cheap little plastic cameras for ten years or so just as an antidote to the hell that is digital photography and here's a selection from those experiments.
Who doesn't like a good square?
Move is an Education Program of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and one of my favourite projects to be associated with over the years. The program gives young adults with disabilities direct access to the ACO players. Under the movement facilitation of Dean Watson, they are immersed in a unique experience with not just live music but the musicians and their instruments.
https://www.aco.com.au/blog/post/ACO-move-2015-overview
A selection of some of my favourite pics from shooting new and emerging artists at Lazy Thinking nights.
http://lazythinkingrecords.com
365 dinners, 362 lunches, 361 breakfasts and 205 substantial snacks!
In 2006, I was fortunate enough to receive an Australia Council grant to exhibit the results of a year spent photographing everything I ate. This was before Instagram, mind you, so the novelty of that idea was fresh. Shooting this project was pretty bloody hard to do. Carrying a camera every moment of my day for a year and remembering to shoot everything before I took a bite was exhausting. (There was one meal I completely forgot and had to recreate from raw, uncooked materials afterwards - can you find it?)
Anyway, it was worth it, as the exhibition was a huge smash. I reckon there was one day I had at least six people through the gallery. Maybe seven! It’s quite difficult being so ahead of my time.
These two prints were exhibited along with a selection of my favourite (and infamous) meals. (One person asked, “Why are there so many donuts?”) The prints were 2.5 metres in length and affectionately named Guy Sebastian and Casey Donovan, after the 2003 and 2004 Australian Idol winners and the time frame I shot the photos in.
Guy was arranged chronologically from day 1 to day 365 — just as (a) God would have wanted.
Casey was arranged with my favourite meals at the centre and the least favourite at the edges. Messy and intriguing. I’m more fond of Casey.
Incidentally, the prints are gathering dust under my bed if anyone’s interested in seeing them or hanging them on their wall. (One’s a little bit ripped, but I think it adds something.) Call me!
This is a series I took in Kyoto recently while stretching myself and learning a little more about the craft of street photography which has always scared the crap of of me a little.
