Aesthetica Magazine (UK) has selected artists/artworks for their 2012 creative annual (international), with my image “The Office” being chosen for publication.

The magazine is available from most good newsagents and selected galleries around the globe; Here’s their blurb – ‘Aesthetica Magazine engages with the arts both in the UK and internationally, combining dynamic content with compelling critical debate and pushing boundaries while exploring the best in contemporary arts and culture’.

Here’s my blurb – ‘Despite the sheer mass of the drab concrete and the strict formation of the gridded windows, The Office, through the beautiful disorder of the blinds and cubicles to the workers’ daydream stares, ultimately is an optimistic expression of the human spirit: That despite the apparent confines of buildings and suits, our thoughts remain free and unbound’.

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Some recent voice-over recording/production for a TVC for Act for Peace’s “Christmas Bowl” appeal. Voice talent was Brendan Barnett, with the TVC produced by the talented folk at Room 3.

Such a fitting message at a time of year that invites so much wastage…here’s to a happy Christmas for everyone.

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My image, beach boy, is currently featured in an Australia/NZ advertising campaign for Canon.

The campaign centres around Canon’s online creative community – World of EOS – and its Canon DSLR products.

My image was shot to demonstrate a technique to shape bokeh highlights (the bright, out of focus areas in the background of an image). More often used in night scenes with things such as street lights, I instead used the highlights created from the sun’s reflection on water. To achieve the effect, a shape is cut out of dark cardboard (in this case, a star) and centred over the lens.

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The Sony ACMP Projections for 2011 are now screening across Australia.

Above is my image which won last year’s single shot category for the Sony make.believe brand.

Here are the screening dates:

Melbourne
Tuesday 13th September
6:30pm drinks, 7:30pm screening
The Astor Theatre
1 Chapel St, St Kilda, VIC

Brisbane
Thursday 15th September
6:30pm drinks, 7:30pm screening
Tribal Theatre
346 George St, Brisbane, QLD

Canberra
Tuesday 20th September
6:30pm drinks, 7:30pm screening
Arc Cinema – National Film and Sound Archive
McCoy Circuit, Acton, ACT

Sydney
Wednesday 28th September
6:30pm drinks, 7:30pm screening
Chauvel Cinema
Cnr Oxford & Oatley Rd, Paddington, NSW

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Triple J unearthed winning songstress, Sophie Koh, is heading off in a new direction for her forthcoming album.

Produced and written in LA with Brad Wood and Australian ex-pat, Ben Lee, a single entitled ‘Lo-Fi’ will be released leading up to the launch of the LP.

Sophie commissioned me to create a series of images for her CD artwork and promo to reflect the new sonic outlook. Here’s a sample of those photographs.

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A new work of mine, ”Girls Crossing’, has been shortlisted for the 2011 Olive Cotton Portraiture Prize, exhibiting at the Tweed River Gallery.

Prints available for purchase upon request.

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Tim Reid will be launching his new EP, ‘Only One’ at at The Empress in North Fitzroy on Sunday 18th September.

I had the privelege of mixing the EP, which Tim recorded and produced, as well as shooting some promo shots for him.

You can have a listen, and support the artist directly via the player below. Enjoy:

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I’ve received the award for Best Documentary Image at the 2011 Kodak Salon, which is exhibiting at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne (Friday 15 April – Saturday 4 June).

The winning image, entitled ‘The Mechanic’, was actually shot from the footpath and through a window (camera pressed against the glass), after midnight earlier this year (I even dashed home to get some window cleaner – how’s that for dedication?). I imagine the mechanic left the office during daylight hours, not realising the light was still on, and the usually ‘one-way’ glass wall became a viewing portal to what I think is a telling portrait.

From the gritty fax machine, oily rag and ‘dirty’ calendars to the debt collection policy and still-life-perfect red apple; I couldn’t have styled it better if I’d tried.

Archival-quality Type-C prints are available at 75x50cm: please contact me for purchase enquiries.

Also above is an image shot the previous year, entitled ‘The Office’, which won best documentary image at the Kodak Salon in 2010. Prints of this are also available for sale.

I hope to continue the theme and extend these works into a series. Street photography, especially shot close to home, is really at the core of my personal work, and it has been a real honour to receive this recognition, two years consecutively.

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Clichés are often thrown around regarding the challenges of working with children, animals, etc, but nobody ever mentions anything about airborne paint. Messy (but good fun) – and all in a day’s work.

Welcome to the new blog section of the website.

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