Continue through to take a squizz of the socail snaps from last night. (Thanks Deckland @ Hobgestapo)

And once again, thank you to those who made this happen. Mel @ Mart Gallery, our thirst quenchers at Becks, and Oasis Charity, for your endless great work. And thank you Sarah Norris! Once editor of Drum Media. I hold you responsible for my foray into rock photography. One person I would like to give special thanks to is my brother Justin, for all his support, advise and hard work in the lead-up to the show, and every day, every shoot that he has helped me on over the past five years. Without Justin, I could very likely be an architect right now. So thank you Justin!

And Daniel! My love, my life! THANK YOU! and CONGRATULATIONS! We did it baby!

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.

Label: Maise
Location: Palm Beach, Sydney
Model: Brie
MUA: Julia Green
Designers: Claire Greaves, Kimberly Barton
Maise PR: Under The Wing

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.

And then the rain came. I would have liked to have been shooting Dizzy Rascal at this moment, but, what with $15000 worth of gear on me, I was stuck under shelter, photographing the wet punters.

Kasabian brought all the kids to the mosh pit, with less head banging, more screaming and swooning.

Mars Volta were on fire. You can tell these boys have had many years practice.

Powderfinger were up next. I shot their press shots a couple of months ago, you can check them out here. (I got a wave from a couple of the boys onstage; it made my day).

Muse were as epic as one would expect, if I closed my eyes, it was like playing Guitar Hero really really loudly. Damn fine musicians.

And lastly, Peaches. My Gosh Peaches, you are truly amazing. You are all good things Berliner, with a New York accent. You were the perfect way to end the 100th Big Day Out. You never cease to amaze.

And here are some other random pics, just in case I haven’t uploaded enough already.

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.

Mastodon was next. And as much as I wanted to fix my camera on the multitude of tattoos that adorned the aging metalheads, I couldn’t help but turn my camera around and focus on the incredibly captivated audience.*

Next up was Passion Pit. What with the hype they have received over the past few months, the crowd was hungry, and the young men from Massachusetts put on a great show. The guitarist stole the show for me, while the lead singer looked a little like a younger, shorter Nick Littlemore, without the crazy stage antics.

Lily Allen sauntered onto the main-stage donned in a tropical flourish, shaking her bootie across the stage, making all the photographers day. Apparently there was some nipple action later, however all photographers were gone by this stage….

Ah Devendra, wow, what a show. AND the voice. What an incredible combination of rich falsetto, impeccable good looks, home-made tattoos, nonchalant style. Not many men can wear skinny white jeans, sing like an angel and still have all the girls swooning. Devendra does it, yes he does.

And so part i comes to a close, here is a little teaser of what is left to come.

*It’s Mastodon, not Mastedon. Mastodon is not a Christian Rock band. Mastedon is.

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.

And some respite from all that ass….

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.

This shot is our homage to the above shot, with the addition of me

Oh, and this is a shot of Bernard and Daniel (Silverchair) for my first Jmag cover, 2 years ago.

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.

And, a side note. I would like to apologize for my very poor effort at blogging regularly. I have been guest blogging on Lifelounge, and am about to embark on a month long pictorial story on love, which you can go and check out here It will be uploaded three times a week. Go check it out, this is going to be my final creative outburst to end the year, and as a result, might affect the number of entries here on bangbangdotdot.