Big in Japan party
Some photos from last night’s Big in Japan party at Carriageworks.
It was presented by Kirin and Ksubi and featured several Japanese performance artists.
All very odd, very fashionable, very Japanese.
Romance Was Born open a store
Here’s some snaps from the opening night party for fashion label Romance Was Born’s first ever retail shop.
It’s a ‘concept store’ in Paddington called Pearl’s Dream and is open for a couple of months until January 31st.
It features many of the items they launched at their stunning show at Australian Fashion Week this year.
The store was [...]
Breakfast on the Bridge
6000 Sydneysiders walked onto a grass covered Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday morning for the first ever Breakfast on the Bridge.
Real grass turf was rolled out from pylon to pylon to cover the length of the bridge and provide a soft spot to picnic.
The grass, the people, the cows and lack of cars made for a [...]
UncharTED 2009 finals
I photographed the uncharTED Grand Final for Peer Group at Oxford Art Factory last Thursday.
UncharTED is a band competition sponsored by Tooheys Extra Dry that offers the opportunity to play Splendour in the Grass along with a $25,000 development package. The next round offers a spot on the Big Day Out bill.
The bands that made [...]
Brüno premiere and Time Out Sydney after party
Here’s some photos from the Sydney premiere of Bruno at the State Theatre plus the after party hosted by Time Out Sydney at Zeta Bar in the Hilton.
Shooting these things is simultaneously exciting and mind numbingly dull. Photographers queue for hours beforehand, trying to nab a plum spot in the media pen. Then it’s waiting, [...]
Sydney Songs closes Creative Sydney
The three week run of Creative Sydney came to an end on Friday night with a performance of Sydney Songs at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Many Sydney muso’s performed songs about Sydney backed by the Alan Dale Allstars, lead by Lindsay McDougal.
Creative Sydney was a fantastic initiative, focusing attention on the often unacknowledged or unknown [...]
Artisan Guild and Curiosity Shop
Following the trend for pop up shops, the Artisan Guild and Curiosity Shop has just opened on Oxford St Darlinghurst.
Running till the end of July it’s curated by the local mens shoe label Marsu Homme and selling the wares of many of Sydney’s finest artisans including St Augustine Academy, Matt Weston, Elke Kramer, Izrock Pressings, [...]
Romance Was Born : RAFW 2009
The last of my fashion week posts is from the spectacular Romance Was Born show at The Wharf Restaurant on Sydney Harbour. As with previous shows from the designers it was extravagant, theatrical, kitsch and featured my old neighbour Pauly.
There was an aquatic theme going on, with shells, sea creatures, scales, coral, sea captains and [...]
Friedrich Gray : RAFW 2009
During Rosemount Australian Fashion Week i had the privilege of photographing a number of shows backstage for fashion PR firm Little Hero. They represent the cream of exciting young designers including Friedrich Gray, ANT!PODiUM, Therese Rawsthorne and Romance Was Born.
These photos are from the Friedrich Gray show, a sydney label designed by Ben Pollitt. The [...]
MTV Australia Awards 2009 : Backstage
Before the MTV Awards kicked off i was stationed backstage in the ‘Transit Lounge’ where guests mingled before the show.
Brandon Flowers and Craig Nicholls were having a friendly chat after walking the red carpet.
Mark Hoppus from Blink 182.
Vanilla Ice and Bra Boy Koby Abberton.
The man in the hat Molly Meldrum.
The Killers before strolling along [...]
MTV Australia Awards 2009 : The Presenters
As well as shooting the live performances at the MTV Awards i was turning around shooting the presenters and award winners at the podium.
The show was hosted by the diminutive Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy who’d i’d photographed not long ago for XBox.
One of the surprises of the night was when his wife and [...]
MTV Australia Awards 2009 : The Performances
A couple of weekends ago i was part of the crew from Blue Murder Studios photographing the Vodafone MTV Australia Awards for MTV.
It’s a good gig to get because it’s much better access than the usual red carpet and media room frenzy. I thankfully managed to avoid both those places.
It means getting [...]
Sydney Barmy for Russell Brand
Sydney seemed in the grip of Russell Brand fever when he visited last week to perform two sold out nights at the Enmore Theatre and Hordern Pavilion.
He’s got quite the reputation as a ladies man and I got to see the effect he has on womenfolk up close at an after party Time Out hosted [...]
Sound Relief Sydney
My Saturday was spent at Sound Relief Sydney, snapping pictures, getting rained on and revelling in nostalgia.
The concert was held at the Sydney Cricket Ground in tandem with another concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with all proceeds going to benefit victims of the recent Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods.
The highlight of the whole day [...]
Sydney Festival 2009 in photos
A month late, but here’s the final lot of my photos from Sydney Festival.
First up is Festival First Night, featuring Grace Jones, Santogold (before she became Santigold) and Busy P DJing plus loads more i didn’t see. It’s always one of the highlights of the festival; it’s free and takes over the city with [...]
Fall Out Boy on a warship
I had a pretty fun gig yesterday, shooting Fall Out Boy play onboard HMAS Tobruk for Xbox Sounds.
It was a pretty spectacular and unique location for a concert, on the deck of a Navy warship docked at Garden Island in Sydney Harbour.
Pete Wentz and the other chaps put on an entertaining show for the [...]
Sydney Big Day Out 2009
I had a bit of a shocker at the Big Day Out. After shooting Children Collide i dropped my 70-200 lens onto the grass. I didn’t think much of it at the time but about half an hour later i noticed it wasn’t working. Whenever i attached it to my camera it went haywire and [...]
All Tomorrow’s Parties in Sydney
For years i’ve envied other cities around the world that hosted the All Tomorrows Parties festival. Created 10 years ago by an english chap named Barry Hogan he describes the festival as,
"…kind of like an anti-festival. We want to have drinks at reasonable prices, decent bands playing a lot of sets, free programs and [...]
