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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 dancing. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 theatre. [...]
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 [...]
Sydney’s best coffee
I spent last week drinking lots of very good coffee while shooting Time Out‘s feature on Sydney’s best coffee. The cover shot is a snap i took quickly by a window at Campos last year. Bertoni in Balmain was baby central. In fact all of Balmain appeared overrun with newborns. The streets congested with strollers. [...]
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor under a dead horse
I took this portrait of Elizabeth Ann Macgregor the other week. She’s the Director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. It was to accompany an interview Time Out Sydney was doing with her to coincide with the Biennale of Sydney. I took along some lights and Craig for some assistance. After scouting around the MCA [...]
16th Biennale of Sydney photos
Last week i had a tour of some of the works which form the Biennale of Sydney. Covering several venues, most notably Cockatoo Island, there’s over 180 works to see from now until the 7th September. Above is Jill McKay, who along with three other ladies aged 80-plus continuously perform ‘God Save the Queen’ by [...]
A small part of Aboriginal Sydney
A few weeks back Time Out Sydney published an indigenous themed issue timed for Reconciliation Week. I photographed some of the people and places we were profiling. Above is Uncle Max Eulo who’s commonly known for the smoking ceremony he performs as a welcome to Sydney. I ventured out with him on the Tribal Warrior [...]
Tank Stream Tour
The other week i was lucky enough to attend a tour of the Tank Stream for Time Out. It’s a tough tour to get on, they only happen every 6 months with thousands applying and only one hundred or so being chosen at random. The Tank Stream is the reason Sydney was colonised where it [...]
Time Out Sydney Style Council
Elizabeth Ann MacGregor, director of the MCA in Sydney. For last weeks issue of Time Out Sydney we assembled a ‘Style Council‘ of people to give us their take on what makes Sydney tick. It was a fun feature to shoot, even if it was rather hectic pinning these people down. Philip Cox, founder of [...]