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Splendour Studio – Day 3

jónsi

jónsi

Here’s the third and final day of my FasterLouder Splendour Studio photos.

One of the highlights was a chance photo opp with jónsi. Although we’d requested a photo with him, we’d been knocked back and he wasn’t on our official schedule. But i saw him wandering backstage, doing a photo with Harpers Bazaar. So i approached his minder and asked if he could fit us in, and thankfully he said yes.

When i showed him our table of props he was immediately drawn to the head dress, saying it was similar to the one he wears on stage. To add another element to the shot i asked if he’d blow some confetti out of his hands.

It was a lovely chance photo, and made up for Richard Ashcroft cancelling his scheduled photo that day.

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Splendour Studio – Day 2

Florence Welch

By day two of the FasterLouder Splendour Studio i’d just about lost my voice. The combination of festival dust, tiredness and a day of barking instructions took it out of me. So i hoarsley rasped my way through the following days, prodding musicians to do this and that.

Here’s my photos from day 2 featuring Clare Bowditch, Two Door Cinema Club, Florence and the Machine, Jonathan Boulet, Band of Horses, Band of Skulls, Magic Numbers, Bluejuice, Tame Impala, Paul Kelly, The Drums and Midnight Juggernauts.

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Splendour Studio – Day 1

Temper Trap in the Splendour Studio

At Splendour in the Grass i had one of the best assignments i’ve ever had – shooting backstage portraits of the bands and artists playing at the festival for FasterLouder.

FasterLouder had a tent in the media compound backstage that i set up with a white paper roll and some studio lights (with help from Elleni). Over the course of the three days over 30 bands visited to get their picture taken. Some i took indoors in a simple classic style, some i plied with props and accessories to get them loosened up and have fun, while others i took outdoors for a taste of the lush green surrounds of Woodfordia.

For many years i’ve documented festivals, concentrating on the performances, the punters and the festival atmosphere. So this was an exciting evolution, shooting one-on-one portraits with the artists.

Here’s my photos from the first day.
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Florence and the Machine at the Enmore

Florence Welch seems to be riding a wave to genuine pop stardom. At Splendour she pulled the largest crowd i saw at the whole festival. More than The Pixies and more than The Strokes who followed her.

These are some photos of her performance at the Enmore Theatre last night, the first of four sold out Sydney shows.

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Splendour Studio

Mumford and Sons

Here’s a couple of preview shots from my time in Woodford shooting artists backstage at Splendour in the Grass for FasterLouder.

Jonathan Boulet

Over the course of three days i shot portraits of Florence and the Machine, jónsi, Mumford and Sons, Scissor Sisters, Foals, Surfer Blood, Ash, Temper Trap, Band of Horses, Wolfmother, Passion Pit, The Vines, Kate Nash, Lisa Mitchell, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Two Door Cinema Club, Band of Skulls, Dan Sultan, Cloud Control, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Clare Bowditch, Midnight Juggernauts, The Magic Numbers, School of Seven Bells, Tame Impala, Washington, Operator Please, Bluejuice, We Are Scientists and Jonothan Boulet.

You can see shots of all those bands in the FasterLouder Splendour Studio galleries.

Or see all the shots here from Day 1, 2 and 3.

DFA Records Art Exhibition

Last night i took some photos of the launch of DFA records art exhibition at Tom Dunne Gallery in Darlinghurst for EMI.

Titled “That’s Cool But Can You Make It More Sh*t?”, the show was a large collection of record sleeves, posters, doodles and polaroids from LCD Soundsystem and other DFA projects.

DFA art director Michael Vadino was behind most of the work

As it’s Splendour season the calibre of international guests was pretty high with LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Alison Goldfrapp and Nick Valensi of The Strokes in attendance.

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy with The Strokes Nick Valensi

Lisa Gunning and Alison Goldfrapp

3 Hot Chips

Local talent was well represented too with various members of Dappled Cities, Faker, Red Riders, Papa vs Pretty, Lost Valentinos and even a Masterchef contestant.

Natalie Miller and Aaron Harvie

Sometimes these things can be pretty wanky but i encountered no jerks and everyone was quite lovely.

The show continues till August 2nd.

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FBi Final Fling portraits

FBi presenter Sweetie

On Saturday night i took some pictures at FBi Radio‘s Final Fling concert at the Metro.

Rather than shoot it traditional event coverage style, I set up a paper roll and light to do some portraits.

Will Reichelt

My buddy Will helped me set up. He has a photo show opening this week at Mart Gallery.

Sam aka Guineafowl

FBi presenter Thom McMullen aka Shag

Freya from Kyü

Kyü

Pepa from Jinja Safari

Marcus from Jinja Safari

Jinja Safari

Jinja Safari were pretty impressive. They’ve only been playing a short while but already have some polished songs and enthusiastic live show. Part of the Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Vampire Weekend zeitgeist.

I intended to take more photos but was in an awkward spot and had to pack down prematurely, so this was it. But there’ll be abundantly more musician portrait opportunities at Splendour.

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Home from holidays

Matamanoa Island as seen from Hipstamatic

Cybele and I have just returned from a lovely week long holiday on the Fijian island of Matamanoa.

Like our last holiday, i hardly took any photos. Since doing photography for a living, holidays have been more of an occasion for downtime, away from the camera, laptop, iphone and distractions of twitter, facebook, email, rss feeds and information overload that’s normal life.

But one occasion when the camera came out was at night, to try and capture the night sky.

One lesson i learned is that you really need a rock solid tripod for this sort of thing. A rickety plastic table isn’t ideal.

And that the world spins remarkably quickly. The stars begin to blur after a 30 second exposure.



Annandale Hotel 10th Birthday

Jimmy Barnes on stage at the Annandale with band members Davey Lane and Charlie Owen

Over the past couple of weeks my local, The Annandale Hotel has been celebrating its ten year anniversary. The place has stood for a lot longer than ten years, but the anniversary marks the time it’s been owned and run in it’s current incarnation by Matt and Dan Rule.

I saw a couple of the gigs, and took a photo for Drum Media to coincide with the anniversary.

While i wouldn’t normally call myself a Jimmy Barnes fan, it was pretty special watching him belting out the hits like Khe Sanh, Flame Trees and Working Class Man.  I wasn’t intending to take photos, but when Andy invited me along he said i’d regret it if i didn’t, and he was probably right. So i took a few snaps from behind the bar.

They accompany a story he wrote for Mess and Noise, primarily about his cab ride to the gig.

And here’s a couple of shots i did for Drum Media featuring Richard Clapton (who had to leave before we shot the second shot), Jake and Stav from bluejuice, Jay Whalley from Frenzal Rhomb and Pete Kostic from Regurgitator and Front End Loader.

Backstage at Fashion Week for Harper’s Bazaar

A spread in Harper's Bazaar illustrated by my photos

Australian Fashion Week seems like an eternity ago now, but here’s some photos that have just gone to print.

They’re behind-the-scenes photos at fashion label Little Joe‘s runway show, run in a Lancôme sponsored double page spread in Harper’s Bazaar.

Louise Van De Vorst and Samantha Harris

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