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 personal [...]
Leeanna Walsman
I took a few snaps of actress Leeanna Walsman after an interview for Time Out the other week.
It was in the corridor of the Sydney Theatre Company, where Leanna is appearing in Stockholm.
Hugo Weaving
Here’s some snaps of the superb actor Hugo Weaving. It was a last minute affair, i only found out i was getting a photo opp with him 20 minutes before the shoot.
They were taken in a minute i had in a hotel room while he was on a junket for Wolfman. No time for [...]
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 twist.
We [...]
Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother
Having photographed Wolfmother countless times onstage it was nice to get the opportunity to photograph frontman Andrew Stockdale face to face.
It was for a feature in Time Out Sydney on various Modular artists.
The shots on white were taken at my place with an idea for a composite cover with other artists. That didn’t end up [...]
Crossing paths with the Sartorialist
Since issue 1 of Time Out Sydney there’s been a street style feature that i’ve photographed called Word on the Street.
It’s a pretty unashamed ‘homage’ to The Sartorialist.
This week i noticed that we’ve finally crossed paths on our subjects, a girl named Tiffany who i photographed in Paddington in November and was published in our [...]
Photographing Amanda Lepore
Here’s some photos from a brief shoot i had on Friday with famous New York transexual Amanda Lepore for Time Out Sydney. Amanda was in town to launch a new gay club night.
This was a pretty intimidating and exciting shoot for me, not because of Amanda Lepore per se, but for the fact that she [...]
Kenneth Kvarnström at Sydney Dance Company
While i’m posting dance related photos, here’s some portraits i took of Kenneth Kvarnström for Time Out Sydney. Kenneth is a Finnish choreographer who is creating a new work for the Sydney Dance Company called Mercury.
We started in a workshop backstage where the outifts are made, and Kenneth immediately impressed with his dexterous posing. [...]
Sydney’s Best Breakfasts
Seeing Will’s post on Baffi and Mo reminded me about the photos i shot for Time Out Sydney’s Best Breakfasts issue.
Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day, and a lazy café breakfast is one of life’s great pleasures.
Any of these establishments will feed you well, alongside a killer coffee.
Since the story was published it [...]
DIVA Awards 2009
For the 3rd year in a row i photographed the red carpet of Sydney’s drag industry awards, the DIVA’s on Monday night for Time Out Sydney.
The awards were held at The Bourbon in Kings Cross and although pretty much anything goes in Kings Cross, there were still loads of tourists stopped in their tracks, gobsmacked [...]
Footballers and bears in the buff
Yesterday was an interesting photo shoot at Flinders Bar for a story in the Gay and Lesbian section of Time Out Sydney.
It starred three footballers from the Sydney Rangers Football Club and two gentleman from the Harbour City Bears.
The Rangers are Sydney’s first gay soccer club and the Harbour City Bears are a social club [...]
Time Out Sydney Food Awards
It was a month of good eating as i photographed the feature for Time Out Sydney’s Food Awards issue.
The Food Awards are the brainchild of Time Out’s tremendous Food and Drink Editor Myffy Rigby.
Here is the list of winners:
Restaurant of the Year – Marque
People’s Choice – Glebe Point Diner
Best new restaurant – Rockpool Bar and [...]
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, [...]
Performances at Sydney Theatre
Here’s some photos from performances i’ve shot at Sydney Theatre in the past couple of months.
Shooting this sort of thing is a refreshing way to use the skills i’ve learned from concert photography for other sorts of performance.
Shooting dance is especially rewarding, freezing those split second moments that pass too quick for the human eye.
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Wil Anderson gets Wilosophical
Here’s some snaps of comedian Wil Anderson taken for a feature in the latest Time Out Sydney.
In the tradition of naming his standup shows with a pun on his name, Wil’s latest show is called Wilosophy.
Which is why we thought it’d be fun to dress him up as a philosopher.
So i hired a toga, grabbed [...]
Popping balloons with Adam Hills
Here’s some snaps i took with comedian Adam Hills prior to an interview with Time Out at his publicists office.
His tour is called Inflatable, so i went the literal route and got him to inflate a balloon to the point where it burst in his face. I figured it would make a nice series and [...]
Food and Drink photos
I mainly concentrate on the music photos here on Boudist but a lot of the work i do at Time Out is shooting bars and restaurants.
So for a change of scene here’s some food and drink photos to whet your appetite.
Photographing Rafael Bonachela
The other week i photographed Rafael Bonachela, the new Artistic Director of the Sydney Dance Company for a story in Time Out.
I met him at the dance studios not really knowing how i was going to shoot it. Since he’s in the diretors role, it’s not really the done thing to get him [...]
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 [...]
Ruby Rose cover shoot
The new issue of Time Out Sydney is out today featuring a cover story i photographed with MTV host Ruby Rose.
We shot it a couple of weeks ago in a brief morning shoot at Blue Murder Studios.
Some of the references i was considering were a Terry Richardson-esque punchy cover like the GQ one, or a [...]
Star Wars Unwrapped
The other week i photographed the installation of the Star Wars exhibit at the Powerhouse Museum.
Along with the costumes and props from the film, they flew in a team of American curators to install the exhibit.
It was a pretty strange sight seeing the menacing figure of Darth Vader unceremoniously taken out of his plastic wrapping [...]
Photographing Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton
On returning from overseas one of my first assignments was to photograph Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton for a Time Out Sydney cover feature.
The feature is about their roles as Creative Directors of the Sydney Theatre Company and previewing the STC open day where the public can see backstage at the [...]
Ladyhawke
Here’s some snaps i took a few weeks ago of Pip Brown aka Ladyhawke.
We wandered the streets round the Modular offices looking for interesting backdrops. I just had a short amount of time in her day of doing back-to-back press and radio interviews. It was a typical rush.
I wish i’d coaxed more personality out of [...]
