Monday, May 23, 2011

Martin Mischkulnig steps out...

Martin Mischkulnig was sent on a walk around the Garden House Apartments in Carlton, Melbourne. His aim was to capture the landscape at each step.

352 STEPS


395 STEPS


Take a look at the rest of Martin's journey here: The Garden House

Damien Pleming - Living the dream

"Growing up footy was my life. The real footy that is, AFL!! I had a taste of the big time in 1995 when I completed pre-season and played 2 games with the Sydney Swans reserves. Typical sob story though, bodgy knee finished that dream and started another.
So when this job shooting the AFL presenters of Channel 10 came up it was a great chance to get amongst footy again. I've gotta say I do love it when the 1st game of the season comes around.
Cheer Cheer the red and the white!!!"
Damien Pleming.


Luke Darcy


Andrew Maher

Damien Pleming - The Making of Melanie's Dress

This story was based around the dress that Jason Grech and Harry Georgiou spent 120 hours making for Melanie Vallejo of Chanel 7's Winners and Losers to wear to the Logies.


The National Portrait Gallery purchases work by Hugh Hamilton

The National Portrait Gallery has purchased Hugh Hamilton's portrait of Nobel Prize Winner Dr Elizabeth Blackburn for their permanent collection.



Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Wood from the Hood a la Janyon



"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