"I undertook a personal project to do a portrait of Garth Wood (aka Wood from the Hood). Garth is a bit of a bleeder, that is he cuts above the eye easily and his opponents know this is his Achilles heel.
Myself and MUA Michelle Dube thought this would make for an interesting subject and with Michelle's effort we managed to get some time with Australia's most promising middleweight boxer.
The former Rabbitoh's player grew up tough on the (then) mean streets of Redfern, and quit footy to focus on boxing. He won Fox's "the Contender" and shortly after this shoot he went on to knock out Anthony "the Man" Mundine in December 2010.
After shooting some broody and bloody portraits, I wanted to get an opponents POV image that captured the energy and power of a punch from this man. I wondered how scary it must be to receive that right hook in the kisser. I'm sure Mundine knows.... I love the fact that this image puts you there in the ring and you can almost smell the sweat and the lights and the aggression.
As a human being, Garth came across calm and softly spoken, and was a pleasure to work with, but even if he wasn't its not like he was going to get any lip from me."
Janyon
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