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As we start planning for our road trip across the US I have been traipsing the thousands of photos I never uploaded from our 2008 trip. Many more to come.

Firstly, I just want to say thank you to everyone who came to the opening last night. There was an incredible turn out, the Becks flowed freely, and good times were certainly had. Daniel and I were totally stoked. Even Tony Mott came! He and Sophie Howarth were the last artists to exhibit at Mart gallery before us.

Continue through to take a squizz of the socail snaps from last night. (Thanks Deckland @ Hobgestapo)
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Daniel Boud and I have a joint show opening this week at Mart Gallery. It is a collection of 24 magazine covers we have photographed over the past 5 years, featuring the cream of Australia’s music industry. From Ladyhawke to INXS, The Grates to Tim Finn, our images have been printed on the covers of magazines and streetpress such as Jmag, Drum Media, The Brag, 3D World, Mess and Noise and Time Out. Our work will be displayed as it was intended, as magazine covers, in an enlarged version of what appeared on the magazine racks and streets of Australia.

Images will be for sale, in limited edition, with all profits going straight to Oasis, an incredible charity based in Surry Hills who supports homeless youths through counseling, training, jobs and education programs.

Here’s an interview Dan and I wrote with our pals at Pedestrian TV.

Here is a sneak peak of some of my pics, if you want to see the rest, get yourself down to Mart Gallery from Friday 5th. The show will be open for two weeks. Viewing by appointment only (so give Mart a call if you want to pop by).

Exhibtion Details

Mart Gallery
156 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills
5th- 20th February 2010
Open Tues- Sat, 12-5pm

It seems like all I have been posting of recent is music festival pics, and it’s pretty hard not to, when it’s summer in Sydney. Every weekend there is another great show to shoot, another swelling crowd to spy on.

So, here is a fashion shoot I took for Sydney label Maise. We shot this at the designer, Claire Greaves mum’s house in Palm Beach late last year. It seems like a lifetime ago; I have been waiting to upload these pics, and now the lookbook is out, and the range, Iron Lace has been unleashed on the public, I can finally put them up! It was a boiling hot day, the day before I was heading off to Europe (I hadn’t even begun to think of packing), the model, Brie had the most beautiful skin, barely any retouching was needed, Julia Green, the hair and make-up artist who I had just met on a Cleo shoot really worked her wonders, and to top it all off, Claire’s mum made us the most delicious lunch.

Check out some more pics I shot for Maise, at last year’s RAFW.

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And so we continue the epic saga that is Big Day Out #100.

The dapper young fellas who are the Horrors, impeccably clad in St Augustine Academy threads played a flawlessly effortless set. I did a shoot with the mastermind behind St Augustine last year for Academy for Men, you can check it out here.

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On Saturday 24th January Sydney held the 100th Big Day Out. It was a scorcher of a day, reaching 32 degrees by 8am. The day before the temperatures had reached 42 degrees. Thankfully, the sky refused to endure the heat any longer and showered us all with a downpour. Sadly, this is when Dizzy Rascal played, and I was stuck in a corridor, protecting my camera gear from the wet. By the time his first three songs were over (the only time photographers are allowed in the photo pit to shoot) the rain had stopped, the crowd was back in the stadium, as, after all, the show must go on. It was a great day, as always grueling at the time, what with the heat, the crowds, the running between stages, the bossy security guards, the bogans, but when I get home, and download the pics, there is always a sense of satisfaction. And so, here are some of the 3000 pics I shot, sans Dizzy of course.

My old mates Bluejuice, never one to disappoint on the performance front donned themselves in extra skin tight yellow jump suits. Like schizophrenic bees they buzzed around the stage, amping the crowd up for the rest of the day.

Karnivool took me by surprise. I really only went in to photograph the crowd, but as soon as the lead singer, Ian Kenny waltzed out donned in Avatar 3D glasses and a short sleeve shirt buttoned right up, looking very akin to the Mormans we all try to avoid at Town Hall. He was incredible. Mesmerizing. I couldn’t take my eyes, or my camera off of him. Later I saw Ian in the bar, he had his glasses off, and the Morman shirt was gone. No urge to take any more shots. Amazing act to catch if you can.

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In preparation for Big Day Out 2010 I thought I might just show a gallery of legs from previous festivals. There’s only one thing that outnumbers southern cross tattoos at BDO, and that’s legs. I mean, it’s a long, hot day in the middle of summer. Why would you bother wearing pants? Really?

This year’s BDO is very exciting, as on the second day of the Sydney show we will be celebrating the 100th show! No doubt something pretty cool will be lined up for this… my bet is as good as yours, but guaranteed I’ll be there to snap away when it is revealed.

Here is a link to my BDO pics from 2008. It’s always an epic day, racing between the 8 stages, 3 songs no flash etc etc, it’s a real work out!

I am lucky enough to have a two day pass this year. Thinking of dedicating one day to the crowd, and the second day to the music.

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When I got the call to shoot Powderfinger for their latest batch of press shots, I gotta say, my heart jumped. These boys are THE Aussie rock band of the naughties. Bands come and go, the Finger has stuck it out, through and through. And seeing them headline at Homebake on the weekend, there is no doubt; they’re not going anywhere.

Anyway, here are some shots of the boys at Homebake, the Take40 gig at the EQ, followed by a couple of the press shots I took of them up in Queensland in September. Hope you enjoy.

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These photos of Chaingang were taken earlier this year, around winter time. Hayley, the lead-singer, and a dear friend of mine had been asking me to shoot them since the band’s conception, so finally, when we all had a free Sunday we all jumped in our cars and took a tour to an abandoned lot in Alexandria. The wonderful people at Hillsong seem to have left at least 5 acres of land, an abandoned bus, a 20 story building and a big warehouse filled with Christmas gifts, wizz fizz and lightbulbs for kids of Sydney to go and play in.

We came across one guy who works for Hillsong, scared shitless I went out to explain why we were gallivanting around the warehouse. I don’t know whether it was his strong Christian value system, or the batting of my eyelids, but we were given permission to continue shooting, as long as we didn’t wreck anything. I’m not going to say if we did or didn’t.

Here are the pictures.

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