An afternoon with Carmen
Sad news today that Sydney (via New Zealand) transgender icon Carmen Rupe passed away aged 75. I met her several times over the years while photographing for Time Out. The most memorable was an afternoon i spent with her and writer Angus Fontaine in her small Surry Hills apartment. She spoke at length about her [...]
Small Sydney Bars for Tiger Tales
It was more photographing of those small Sydney bars a few weeks ago shooting this story for Tiger Airways inflight magazine. It was my first job for them, so i was happy to get the cover and a seven page feature. I spent a Saturday evening jumping between Sticky Bar, Pocket, The Falconer and Name [...]
Photographing Food and Drink
It’s been a while between food photo updates, so here’s a bit of a backlog of photos i’ve shot for Time Out Sydney recently. This stuff makes up a large part of what i shoot for Time Out. I’d never photographed food or interiors before i started at the magazine, but it’s been almost three [...]
A photo tribute to Surry Hills
To coincide with the Surry Hills themed issue of Time Out Sydney, the magazine held a one night only photo exhibition at Urban Uprising featuring 20 of my pictures, plus some more by Will Storr. The pictures are all of Surry Hills people and places, some taken on assignment for Time Out, some just my [...]
Time Out’s Surry Hills cover
Sometimes a magazine cover photo is inspired by a coverline, in this case “The Hills are alive!” which described Time Out Sydney‘s feature on Surry Hills. It ends up being a little tenuous, but the idea was to allude to the classic image of Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music, but with a modern [...]