Photography

February 22, 2013

2013 – The beginning

2013 is well underway and I would like to wish everyone the best with their Victorian Architecture Awards entries, I’m looking forward to seeing the results. You can view entries at http://vicawards.architecture.com.au/2013-field-of-entrants/

A huge congrats to AM Architecture for features in Houses and Urbis magazines, great projects Andrew and it seems the magazines agree.

Houses Magazine feature:

Urbis Magazine feature:I am a big fan (the biggest) of Houses Magazine’s ‘Re-visited’ feature. I love shooting these projects, it’s a privilege. I’m calling it, this Guilford Bell house was an all time favourite.

2012 finished off with an awesome project working with Winkreative on their Brisbane Airport Brand Book. You can spend hours trawling through their amazing work - www.winkreative.com. Thanks to Darren Heta (producer extraordinaire) and Hank Park (most fun and entertaining Art Director ever). Thanks Nicola and Sara for pulling it all together from London and Gaynor for all your support and help on the ground.

The illustrations and images form the brand book produced by Winkreative.

43rd birthday celebrations on the side of Kingford Smith Drive, cake courtesy of Darren Heta (producer extraordinaire)

Our hotel (Limes Hotel)for an after work bevvy, perhaps not so much on the scene like a sex machine but hey, when in Brisbane…

If you’re into a little burlesque check out the Cellar Bar in St Kilda. We had fun shooting this one for Melbourne Pub Group - http://www.cellarbar.com.au/ - Vogue Living feature below.

January 17, 2013

Tanzanian Road Trip – Arusha to Pangani

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I returned to Tanzania in August 2012 to climb Mt Meru, go on safari, photograph a kindergarten and share a 2 week road trip with 2 very special mountain guides who helped us summit Kilimanjaro in September 2011. I hope that our magnificent road trip in some small way repaid Oscar and Isa for all their generosity of spirit and kindness in helping us summit. Watching Isa and Oscar swim and discover the ocean was certainly one of my personal highlights. Our entire 6 week adventure was an enriching and rewarding journey that is most eloquently told through snapshots. I am eternally grateful to the friends that I shared this with and all the amazingly generous people we met along the way. Now I’d like to share some of it with you.

The roof of the house below is made from oil can lids, brilliant!

November 16, 2012

Flying High

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After wrapping up my assisting days with Gollings in 2001, this week I had the privilege of shooting side by side him, flying high above our fabulous city. John has been defining and informing aerial photography both nationally and internationally for a lifetime. His most recent projects include:

- groundbreaking 3D stereoscopic aerial views of Australian urban landscapes developed for the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, and featured in the Australian Pavilion.

- “Aftermath” – an exhibition of beautifully crafted bush fire images from the Black Saturday bushfires, exhibiting at the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park from 18/11/12 – 03/3/13.

He has been an amazing mentor and it was really great to share our passion for photography again on this assignment.

What a spectacular night we had. Here’s some of my pic’s from the shoot:

This month I was interviewed for Gather and Fold a fabulous journal running on a referral system between creatives of all disciplines. G&F aims to provide an accurate snapshot of the art/design community – the relationships between emerging, outsider, unknown and celebrated designers, artists and creatives – through their connections of mutual admiration. It’s a lovely concept and a great read. Thanks to Ryan Russell and Byron George for referring me and thanks to Bonnie for the lovely chat.

A big congrats to Designinc for being awarded the Sustainability Award for Red Cross Blood Service at the 2012 IDEA Awards.

June 30, 2012

End of Financial Year Update

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As I write on this beautiful, wintery saturday morning I imagine a large portion of Melbourne’s architectural community are probably nursing a sore head today. Some great wins at this years Victorian Architecture Awards. See http://vicawards.architecture.com.au/2012-award-winners/

A big congratulations to NH Architecture for being awarded the Commercial Architecture Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Salt Water Coast. A great project and a fun shoot.

Congratulations to Lyons for the Public Architecture Award for Melbourne Brain Centre. If you went to the launch of Lyons amazing monograph you would have enjoyed the experience of this space. This monograph is a must have! A collection of the practice’s work over the past 15 years, it is a well resolved visual journey that resonates the firm’s ethos of ‘parallel thinking’ – some great interviews and an interesting insight into the design principles of the firm. Published by Thames & Hudson, “More : the architecture of Lyons 1996-2011″ is available on-line at http://www.westbooks.com.au/Public/TitleDetail.aspx?hISBN13=&hTitleID=4432613

Congratulations to Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design for being awarded the Urban Design Award for University Lawn Precinct RMIT. This project is a huge success, students love this lawn. It has bought new life to what was once a dead zone back when I was a student at RMIT. Next time you are meandering the city and you feel like a little spot to rest, relax and chill – parallel to Bowen lane is where you can find this treasure.

We received 2 nominations in this years black and white spider awards – http://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/7th/. Black and White Spider Awards is the leading international award honouring excellence in Black and White Photography.

8223 entries were received from 72 countries. 817 nominees were awarded in 14 categories.

Here’s our images, thanks to Vue de monde and Elenberg Fraser for commissioning this project.

We’ve had some great projects published over the last few months.

Houses Kitchens & Bathrooms – Barwon Heads House by Pleysier Perkins and Mim Design

Architecture Review – Melbourne Brain Centre by Lyons Architects

Houses Magazine – Toorak House by Allan Powell Architects

Architecture Australia – Laurimar Community Centre by Croxson Ramsay

I’ve just started documenting the completed version of Lyons new RMIT Academic building – really looking forward to getting into this one. Here’s the beginnings

If you are near Melbourne University, head to the Wunderlich Gallery, Ground Floor, Architecture Building and see ‘Idea Building – Lyons’. Idea Building is an installation which creates an imperfect ‘not quite right’ copy of the Lyons office. The exhibition runs from June 25 – 27 July.

Melbourne Open House is here again, this is a must do fantastic initiative. See http://www.openhousemelbourne.org/ - Keep the 28th & 29th of July free and plan your visits. Efront has done a fantastic job of the new MOH website. Here’s some shots I did of the Russell Place Sub-Station to get you excited.

April 15, 2012

April Update

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Yikes it’s April! Where did the last 4 months go? We’ve been busy shooting a number of projects for all the awards submissions. A big thanks to my fabulous assistants Jason and Courtney for all their efforts during this busy time. We wish all our clients the best of luck.

“Tada”… here are some of the projects we were commissioned to shoot. With record entries, it’s going to be an interesting year.

NH Architecture – Salt Water

Modelling courtesy of the fabulous Francesca Black from NH. Now that’s serious dedication to the job!

Lyons – Central Plant ANU

Lyons – Argibio

HBO+EMTB – CTMF

We won’t forget this shoot. 35+ degrees and required to wear long sleeve shirts as site still deemed a construction site. We hadn’t counted on this and only had a jumper and a thermal with us. Not our finest hour!

Carr Design – South Yarra Tennis Club

Allan Powell - Sorrento House

Many thanks to Ed for coaxing me into the shrubs!

Hassell – GPY&R

We welcome aboard Amy Ruttan from Canada who is with us for a 2 month internship. Amy joined us last week on her first helicopter shoot with the fabulous Simon from Grenade.

I absolutely loved shooting the Robin Boyd Warrandyte home of Inge King for Houses Magazine. ’Revisted’ is one of my favourite features in Houses Magazine. Inge generously let us into her home and patiently let us photograph her in her studio.

Last but not least, many thanks to Rowena Robertson for the interview and write up in the Weekly Review.

http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/article-display/The-image-builder/4748.

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