Shoot: Tiny Spark

This is a shoot that I just did with Tash Hopkins a photographer I hadn't worked with before but who is quite brilliant. We shot it out in West Auckland with international model Kelvin and we were simply trying to channel her youthful, quiet-yet-quirky personality. The last shot is my favourite because I think we totally got there. Head over here for the full shoot.

Shoot: K U R T

So things have been so busy around here of late I haven't had a chance to post anything in between the teaser for this and the real deal, but here it is. I am so pumped with this shoot; I was sort of trying to channel the grunge era (it is the twentieth anniversary of Nevermind and Ten) by envisaging shorts over pants, Kurt Cobain's trademark white sunnies and Courtney Love's pink babydoll dresses in the 21st Century. Hopefully the correlation's there!

Shoot: K U R T

Just had to share an out take of a shoot I did with the amazing Sara Orme the other day. It's sort of a stylized highlighter pink take on the life and time of Kurt and Courtney.

Shoot Previews: Sweet Home Alabama + Kurt

I am so excited with a couple of shoots we've got coming up on Always Sometimes Anytime soon. The first I shot with a photographer I hadn't worked with before and she was fantastic. Her name is Tash Hopkins, you can check out her work over here; it's fantastic to meet a kindred spirit and form a new creative partnership, and this is exactly what happened when we trucked out to West Auckland with Russian model Kelvin who is over in our part of the world for a year or so. Here's a sneak peek of the shoot, can't wait to show you the rest!

Kelvin was so awesome I recruited her again for a little editorial with Sara Orme. I was trying to find a balance between nineties grunge influences, masculine tailoring, bright colours and layering and really push myself to do more interesting work and more unique work. Again, am really looking forward to seeing the snaps, but below are some of my influences.

Editorial: How Do You Solve a Problem like Zooey Deschanel?

In my ongoing weekly column for Naturally Spirited I discussed the relative merits of the typecast role known as Manic Dream Pixie Girl. Zooey Deschanel is the leader of this army of cute and quirk and she must be stopped. Head over here to read it in full.

Shoot: Preview

I'm really excited about working with Tash Hopkins next week on an outdoor shoot that evokes our early settle immigrant history and local written work from the likes of Katherine Mansfield. Here is our mood board, results as they become available!

Editorial: Lest We Forget

I am continuing to write a weekly column for Naturally Spirited and this week I wrote one about the relative cons of biopics: how the choice of actor, their performance and resulting oscar buzz often overshadow the story of the person the biopic is actually about. The examples I used were Michelle Williams turn in the forthcoming Marilyn Monroe film and how her every move is being noted at the moment - down to the platinum blonde tips of her hair - and the appalling decision to award Penn Bagdley the role of Jeff Buckley, and that I will not be able to take this film seriously regardless of how good his performance is. Dan Humphrey, really?! You can head over here to read the full thing.

Shoot: Still // Life

A few months ago we shot 'Turning Japanese', a shoot for Good as Gold with model Rosie Herdman. We felt because we ignored the selection of dudes clothes at that time it was only fair that we do a shoot with them next, and this is the result. Thanks to photographer Sara Orme, model Fergus at Red 11 and hair and make-up artist Phoebe Leonard.

Shoot: Be My Man

Woah I have been so busy! In between a nightly two-hour radio show, UnderTheRadar - and the line-up announcements of all the festivals we are involved in - and doing the occasional shoot and filing the occasional deadline I have really let this blog fall by the wayside. Alas, radio show is finished and I am feeling slightly more on top of the myriad projects I am involved in. Sara Orme and I are constantly shooting, and this is one of those that I am most proud of. We shot this gender identity shoot at the same time we shot the last one, and Sara has captured the nuances of the light and their personalities exceptionally.