Band Photography
And the ARIA goes to….
Congrats to all the nominees and winners at the Arias tonight. It’s so exciting watching some of my favourite bands I have shot over the past year up there on stage winning awards and belting out ballads and pounding on synths.
Art Vs Science, for Best Independent Release. Loved your performance too. I recognize those goggles from our shoot! I have a suspicion Angela Cheung helped style your Aria costumes.
My award for Art Vs Science is ‘Funniest Photoshoot Ever’ I lost my voice for a week after laughing so hard when you were pretending to fear seagulls.
Claire Collins, you get ‘Best Manager Ever Award.’
Boy and Bear. Awesome work on 6 awards!!! Let’s go back down to Bronte and take some victory photos.
You guys get my Aria award for ‘Sweetest Band Ever Award.’ Sergent Callahan, it appears you have been promoted to Aria Callahan. 
AND Gotye and Kimbra. Beautiful Wally and Kimbra. You guys have created something so quintessentially singular. Wally, I have shot you many a time, and generally half naked! You are incredible. I can’t wait till our next shoot. You come in with so many great ideas, it’s like spring break for the surrealists when we shoot.
You guys win my Aria for ‘Nakedness.’ And no, I am not referring to your video. I’m referring to your ability to strip down any listener to their rawest emotions. You tapped that shit! 
Ok, now off to the Aria party!
aloe blacc for drum media
I had the pleasure of shooting Mr Aloe Blacc the other week for Drum Media. Here is a sneak peak, but, as this is one of my fave shoots of the year, I’ll do a more lengthy post soon!
Lanie Lane
Me and Lanie went for a cruise and stroll in Centennial Park to snap these pics for Drum Media. I love this girl. I first met her over a bowl of Pad Thai on my couch after Daniel had done a shoot with her. We ordered thai for dinner, and she just stayed on after everyone had left and ate and watched tv with us.
I knew I wanted to do something outdoors, to somehow focus less on her rockerbilly sensibility, which has been overshadowed by her country blues vibe of recent (I am speaking dress sense more than anything else by the way people). So, we decided on Centennial Park, found some beautiful locations that I haven’t used in previous shoots- can you imagine there are untouched places still in Centennial Park! and borrowed Lanie’s record label manager Andy Kelly’s wheels for the second part of the shoot. The shoot went so smoothly, Lanie is just such a natural in front of the camera, we were done and dusted in 40 minutes. Yee-haw!
I just love this shot. Her hand covering her face. It’s just so cute.
yelle- backstage at splendour 2011
Yelle was one of 87 portraits I shot backstage at Splendour this year for Triple J Mag. This is the 3rd year I have shot these backstage portraits, and, with Art Director Ben Jarvis by my side, my sneeky collaborator, it was so much fun.
Each year we do a new little gag, this year we got each musician to stand for a mug shot. They wrote their charge on the letter board and gave me their most guilty face possible.
Heaps more pics to come. Including Florence Welch, Tricky, Foster the People, Mogwai, Hot Chip, Foals, Scissor Sisters, The Kills and loads more.
