Happy New Year! The 1st of January is traditionally a day of recovery -- from the celebratory excesses of the night before. It is also a day for new resolutions, and the resolve to keep them in the year ahead. If you're a bit strapped for resolutions,...
To all friends, associates and customers - have a very happy Christmas and a fantastic start to 2010!...
My first love in photography has always been reportage and documentary. Having the opportunity to shoot for the Australian Surf Rowers League (ASRL) as the official photographer of their Western Australian events, takes me back to the purity of the medium and its ability to tell...
As a photographer, one sometimes gets caught up in the need to earn some dollars, gain some exposure and exhibit one's art; so much so that it's often easy to forget that, sometimes, shooting for others can be a whole lot more rewarding than shooting...
The renewal of art spaces in Northbridge continues with this recent entry into the Perth exhibition and performance scene: Sound Kitchen, at 57 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge. Sound Kitchen is a cafe/restaurant with its heart in the right place: the provision of good food and a space...
Portrait photography can be a challenge. It's not just about pointing the camera at your subjects, asking them to smile and firing the shutter. The best portraits are about the subjects: allowing the people being photographed to look their best and their most natural, without the...
Chris Jordan's body of work concerns our mass consumerist culture and its distressing and tragic fallout. It's difficult to look at Jordan's works and not be affected by the themes that they present. His photographs are a sad indictment of consumerism and its impact on...
Take 15 enthusiastic photographers, 8 models, 1 make up artist, studio strobes, theatre lights, speedlights, reflectors, softboxes, umbrellas and a historic port city and you have the makings of a photographic extravaganza known as...
Brad McMillan, owner of Pure Fitness Gym in Canning Vale, is also a competitive bodybuilder. I had the opportunity to photograph Brad just after Saturday's State competition (thanks Dean!), and to mix things up a bit, Brad brought his wife Loretta and kids, Portia and...
You may remember a show on the telly some time ago, hosted by Rolf Harris, where two portrait artists were asked to paint the same subject. Each artist's unique vision led to the creation of often dramatically different portraits of the same sitter. The same...