Doing things differently is never easy, this monkey probably went through a lot of peer pressure for choosing Pepsi over Coke.
Similar thing happened to me, moving from more standard fashiony shoots to project around 52 suburbs, changes the engagement from people and who’s interested, you get a lot more characters and lot less typical models, but that’s fine. Obviously I’ve been over optimistic on kick starting it so quickly as schedules and Sydney winter weather have not been on my side. But fear not, there are some shoots lined up, so I will get back to shooting people instead of fish I catch on Saturday mornings very soon.
Try Pepsi now and then, it puts things in perspective.
Posts Tagged '52 suburbs'
Always Pepsi Pepsi
Published July 19, 2011 Photography 1 CommentTags: 52 suburbs, coca cola, coke, pepsi
52 suburbs
Published July 10, 2011 Life , Photography 1 CommentTags: 52 suburbs, fishing, harbour, new project, sydney
I have a new project, and, before you ask, its not professional fishing in Sydney harbour, although it appears I’m getting quite good at it, just look at this weekend’s catch in the pic above, a sinkful.
The new project is called 52 suburbs, it starts now (well, new pics next week) and will run for a year. Inspired by Louise Hawson, a Sydney photographer, who explored Sydney’s suburbs for a year, every week a different one, talking to people, getting to know the neighbourhood and taking amazing pictures along the way. There is no point doing exactly the same thing over again, but I am very keen to explore city beyond Bondi beach or CBD, so what I’ve come up with is interpretation of 52 suburbs, but instead each week shooting with one new model, in his/her neighbourhood, using whatever local backdrops there are in the area, it would be candid mixed with posed portraiture, inspired by 52 suburbs. One model, one new suburb, every weekend, if I miss it, next week will do two, it’s that simple. And it will be called, drums please, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, no, just kidding, it will be called 52 suburbs, of course.
