MOVING OUT

It seems only slightly surreal to be sitting (technically kneeling) at my desk in an almost empty room. It echoes eerily and seems void of all the things that held so much value to me.
My mother always said that I'd be last to leave home. But I suppose the defiant teenager within me wanted to prove her wrong.
My life in now in boxes which are precariously stacked in the back of a van. All that's left behind are a few bits and pieces, flakes of my time spent in this room. I guess most people don't feel this kind of bond to their spaces, but when you have lived somewhere since you were 1 year old it becomes a lot harder to dramatically alter something that had been so concrete.

There is probably 90 minutes to go before I hop in the passenger seat. I don't really know how to feel, it's odd (although perhaps that's because I'm hungry).

SECRET SHED PARTY

The evening of Saturday was quite lovely because I had received invitation to a special night at the Secret Shed Party. It was incredibly enjoyable to see some good friends of mine perform and share their musical talents. I entirely agree with the fact that the best music is that being played right in front of you, nothing really quite compares to seeing a human being express themselves through song. It kind of warms your insides and gives you this contented sensation of peace. Hopefully this will the first of many more musical events.

SUNDAY

Had a leisurely sleep-in until 12 after an absolutely wonderful night and then lay in bed reading/looking at the pictures in a fascinating book
Realised I hadn't touched a computer in nearly 3 days
Dank so much grape juice
Found out I have a pack of "colour border" instax film and am not sure how this happened
And finally realised how much I'm going to miss my room when I move out in a month

JOURNEY

Shot this for a mini project at uni. We were instructed to capture our morning journey to the university (in 6-8 images). The particular methods of my travel are not necessarily anything spectacular, so what I chose to focus on was the time frame spent on each segment. These shots are the result.

MANADRINE

I don't always eat mandarines. 

But when I do I like to go into the front yard and pick them myself.

Plus I have a really low tolerance for the white stingy bits.

IMAGINATION TAKES YOU EVERYWHERE

This series of images was my final piece of assessment for semester 1. We were asked to produce a folio of twelve images around a central theme (3 portraits, 3 still lives and 6 opens). I decided to look at the natural and organic imagination that children have when they are young and how they are losing it sooner and sooner. This beautiful process of letting your mind create your fun is slowly being replaced with television, video games and the monopolised toy industry. Because of this idea I decided to avoid using technology as much as possible when creating the photographs. Everything in this series is shot on 35mm film, negatives then scanned and colour corrected digitally. There is a loose chronological narrative to the work that is orded as if spanning a single day of adventures and wonderlands (although the actual series took just over 2 weeks to shoot).

WINTER HOLIDAYS MIX

New 8tracks mix of music for the next few cold, lazy and blissful weeks.

MONDAY

Hung out with the little blue guy and watched it rain.
Tidied my room and watered the plants after weeks of neglect.
Made toasted sandwiches because it's cold and melted cheese solves everything.
Shot some more b&w film (and yes, those are corduroy shorts).
Organised the negatives from my end of semester assignment.
Found baby mandarines.

Not bad for my first day of holidays.

CHARACTER

The last assignment for my studio class was to create a character portrait in which we essentially tried to photograph someones personality or something like that. I got the pleasure of taking photos of a good friend, Xanthe. Pretty sure it was super fun.

STILL LIFE

In my studio class there was a big focus on the two major aspects of studio imaging. The portrait and the still life. This assignment brief was to construct a still life with some kind of metaphor or message. I wanted to look at body image as well as plastic surgery and self perception. The photograph is title "Self" because I wanted people to search for something in the image that relates to them.

THE FUTURE

Yet another university assignment, this one involving some kind of a photoshop process and relating to a prediction of life in the future. The future seemed rather boring to me so I went for something along the lines of an unrealistic vision of people travelling through portals. This photographed was surprisingly easy to shoot and even more surprisingly difficult to photoshop to match exactly what was in my imagination.

ACCESS: HOSPITAL AT NIGHT

 The topic behind this work was "access" and essentially we were required to gain access to somewhere/one/thing that was not typically publicly accessible. I got in touch with head of public relations for a local hospital and received permission to photograph in and around it at night. It was both a scary experience and exciting. I am quite happy with the photographs I got even though they are quite different to my usual style.