Events & Performance Photography

The Shirley Knots are a smokin' cabaret group, created by Alison Shirley, with this show's lineup of dancers including Alison, Danica Lani & Lucy Berry. They needed a promo photo and I wanted to try something a little different with this one. I had an idea in my mind that involved painting with light & using off camera flash. The space was a basement under Lulu Lemon Athletica on Bourke st in Melbourne where the girls have been hard at work rehearsing for application to some upcoming Cabaret shows around town. It's really quite an amazing space for rehearsals, but we wanted to transform it with...


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Karaoke with videos by local artists, hilarious standup comedy & breakdancing with Demi's crew (SYTYCD) all on the rooftop of Footscray's Little Saigon market. It's the making of an awesome night, bringing community together. Here's some photos of the event, otherwise known as Footscray by Night as part of the Big West Festival. Looks like fun huh?


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Get creative with it - just no f*n boring shots of people looking stiff and awkward.   That was my brief for shooting the Grolsch Grid at Gasometer & The Laundry in Fitzroy this week. I ran with it. It's not often that you are really allowed to run off the hook and do what you want on a shoot, so when it happens you want to make the most of it.   The idea for the Grolsch campaign is - Get together a bunch of emerging artists from different mediums, put them together in bars around Melbourne and invite the world to come by and check it all out. As always, there's so much amazing...


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There was a whole lotta leadup to this gig. Shooting the promo pics was great fun and seeing them plastered all over Melbourne in the oddest of places was bloody great too. And while Frankie was about to see if he could pull off something he's never done before, I was looking forward to seeing if I could pull off something I haven't done in years. Shooting bands was how I first got into photography. Living in Edinburgh, I used to catch the train across to Glasgow for nights of gritty grrl rock. I'd shoot a role of film, crash on someone's couch then catch the train back to Edinburgh excited...


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