what I’ve been up to lately.

Shooting the portfolio of  GORGEOUS girl named Abbie….who isn’t signed but needs to be….

these images are UNTOUCHED……

Beach images:

Styling: Abi Fincham
MUA: Billie Weston
Hair: Vanessa Mulkearns
Model: Abbie Lewandowsky

Studio images:

Wardrobe: Abi Fincham
Styling: Abi/Abbie/Me/Abbie’s sister Hannah
Minimal makeup by: Elle Simmons
Hair: natural
Model: Abbie Lewandowsky

you’ve got to be kidding.

So, I entered a competition/exhibition in Gladstone a little while ago, and on my recent trip back, I checked it out…

A lot of it was utter crap, there were a couple of pieces I actually really liked, and some that would have been deserving of a prize.

But the shock I felt when I found the winning piece…. Winner of $10,000 might I add…

was this.

It’s about 80cm wide, unevenly constructed out of red and pink (which look gross in real life; the photo doesn’t do it justice) sheets of anodised aluminium.

Its title is ‘Vessel.’

It was so nondescript I actually walked right past it the first time round the gallery, and had trouble locating it even when I was searching

I think in the back of my mind I had actually written it off as some kind of odd serving plate that was left behind.

Oh, but it gets better.

Have a guess how much the artist is charging… (this made me laugh)

$21, 120, the second most expensive piece in the exhibition….

Now, before this gets written off as sour grapes, here is a piece I actually thought deserved attention…

I can’t remember the artist’s name, Louise I think, and it was called ’slip.’

The photo really doesn’t do it justice – it’s made of tissue paper folded/sewn many times, with minute writing in what appears to be sound waves. A lot of work was obviously put into it. The light plays off the different squares of the paper – it was the first thing I noticed when I entered the room, it was both an empty frame and a full frame. Stopped and made me think.

This, on the other hand, made me think for an entirely different reason…

The one down the bottom won a prize of some sort.

They also hung my work incorrectly – I entered two pieces separately yet they were hung together, as one piece – and thus made no sense.

I hate it when my work is misrepresented, even if it is in a country gallery.

Lubanci

From Lubanci SS 09/10 lookbook shoot…

Kate: Portrait…

This image has been entered in an exhibition/competition, for which the prize is pretty incredible… pray for me / wish me luck guys, I could really do with some cash….

on behance.

‘Wadi rum’

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Wadi-rum/183297

AMAZING lightpainting…

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Iain Crawford

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Portfolio/293875

So digitally treated but still absolutely fantastic.

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Joanna Kustra

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/p-a-i-n-t-i-n-g-s/215913

Photography that looks like paintings. Wow….

And of course, FACES, by the same photographer……

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/s-e-n-s-u-a-l/222089

A Good Night.

Myself and Abi NOT working. Ha…. this happens so rarely I had to put this up as proof!

At my 21st.

Lubanci / New Face, Annie

I haven’t been around much, that’s due to an onslaught of work and crazy days at uni, but the semester is almost over and I can finally get back to 1. finishing my TFP work (Wooo! Thanks guys for being SOO PATIENT!) 2. posting work and 3. doing nothing. NOTHING. So exciting!

Looking forward to my month at the beach… yeaaah.

Shot for Jess Chatterton’s LUBANCI lookbook, if you’ve seen the collection it’s AMAZING, don’t want to post here yet until the lookbook has been created. Just a sneak peek!

MODEL: Annie Hall @ Vivien’s – lovely girl, absolutely amazing eyes!

HAIR/MUA: Do not know. Was not there when it was done. If this was you, please let me know so I can credit you!

WARDROBE/STYLING: Jess Chatterton

Tada

One of the final images from Nakkari’s portfolio.

Just a post for the sake of a post, really.

Model: Cynthia

Hair/MUA: Julia Dyson

Nothing new…. working too hard a liveworm and uni and paid jobs to get around to my TFP stuff

A coffee cup.

Cropped from a larger image.

For liveworm, this isn’t the image I’m using though.

I’m thinking coffee will be a bit of a lifeline for me over the next 7 weeks.