Ramingining Fashion Week featured on The Guardian AU

The Guardian AU has published a gallery of images from a community fashion week I was involved with and photographed in Ramingining, Arnhem Land last month. Comprising modelling workshops, a runway show, and a photoshoot on location, Ramingining Fashion Week was organised by Bula’bula Arts and provided an opportunity community to see and celebrate garments featuring artworks by local Yolgnu artists, worn by local models, many for the first time. 

On the runway, models showcased 30 looks from Ḻomuyirr (Soar) and Garkambarryirri (Daybreak) collections which were created by Bula’bula Arts artists and Darwin-based Black Cat Couture NT, debuting at Country to Couture in 2024 and 2025. In the lead up to the parade, Tiwi Islands model Cassie Black hosted a three-day workshop for young people focused on confidence, self-expression, runway technique and posing skills, culminating in a sunset photoshoot on location.

Around 200 people attended the fashion show, many to support the family and friends modelling the garments and the 19 artists whose works featured on hand-painted fabric panels, screen printed fabric and woven pandanus accessories.  

See the Guardian photo essay for a look behind the scenes.

Reynelle Garrawurra, wearing a dress from Lomuyirr (Soar), the 2024 collection by Bula'bula Arts and Black Cat Couture NT, with a handpainted panel by Joy Borruwa.

Jasmane Garrawurra, wearing a dress from Garkambarryirri (Daybreak), the 2025 collection by Bula'bula Arts and Black Cat Couture NT, with handpainted panel by Angela Malibirr.

Photo Essay of the Red Centre Nats up on Guardian Australia

The Northern Territory town comes alive in a flurry of fumes and smoke as cars and bikes compete in a range of categories to win the crown at the three-day Red CentreNATs festival. Enthusiasts and spectators from all over the country flock to Alice Springs for drag races, burnouts and vintage cars, in a high-octane celebration of speed set against the backdrop of the desert.

See more on Guardian Australia

See the full series here

Porch Diaries featured on The Guardian and Photo Collective

Some recent media for Porch Diaries:

Visual Feature on The Guardian

Interview with Kristian Haggblom on Photo Collective

Portraits of Peter Singer published on TheNewYorker.com

I had the opportunity to photograph Peter Singer recently for TheNewYorker.com. See the feature here.

Australian Open 2021 for The New York Times

I am a Melburnian and a tennis fan. Despite month upon month of a hard lockdown last year to achieve our much-envied covid-free status, despite low-level ire at the preferential treatment sport gets here compared with things like the arts, I wanted the tournament to go ahead. I willed it to go ahead.

Binging on tennis was the way my family rounded out the summer school holidays and escaped unrelenting blistering mid-summer days of above 40C. At 11am curtains were drawn to block out the heat and minimise reflection on the television screen. The squeak of sneakers on the hardcourt and crack of the tennis ball became the ambient soundtrack of the house, accompanied by pedestal fans and air conditioning. Over the course of the tournament, an installation of tennis photography grew across my wardrobe door, each player carefully cut out from the newspaper and attached with lumps of bluetak. Anna Kournikova, Martina Hingis, Steffi Graff, Pat Rafter — tennis was at the heart of my first photography exhibitions.

I wanted the tournament to go ahead to achieve a true feeling of summer normalcy, to believe the year ahead would be different than the one before. I wanted a chance to photograph an event that marked the end of every summer I can remember. While the virus found ways to disrupt and public sentiment towards the event dipped and swayed, somehow the show did indeed go on.

Here are some of the features that ran on The New York Times with my pictures, written by Matthew Futterman:

• The Cleanest Open Ever

• The Other Serena (interactive)

• Trust Me, sports without fans is not sports

• At the Australian Open, tennis flirts with normalcy

Big thanks to Fujifilm Australia for loaning me an incredible kit for this assignment. I was able to get my hands on a GFX 100 and two X-T4 camera bodies plus a range of lenses to cover me courtside and beyond.

Porch Diaries published on The Washington Post: Perspective

What started as simple idea to record visitors on my iso-birthday has expanded to become an ongoing record of this global moment in history from a single perspective: my porch. I was thrilled to have the early stages of this series published on The Washington Post recently. Thank you to Olivier Laurent, photo editor there who loved the work and published it immediately, giving me such a boost and motivation to continue as long as we’re under social distancing restrictions.

See the feature here.

And see Porch Diaries unfold here.

Currently working on a few grant applications to get Porch Diaries turned into a book and exhibition, stay tuned!

New work published on The New York Times - In Australia, an Architect Designs for a Future of Fire

On a windy day in February, I visited the beautiful south eastern corner of Tasmania on assignment with The New York Times to photograph Apex Point House and Dr Ian Weir, the architect who designed it.

As the country rebuilds after its devastating wildfires, Ian Weir is leading the push for integrating houses with the land, rather than mass clearance of vegetation.

Along with a lovely read by journalist Casey Quackenbush, a small selection of the images were published online and in print on Monday 20 April, 2020.

Portaits of Zoë Foster Blake published on The New York Times for IWD2020

It was a pleasure to meet and photograph Zoë Foster Blake, Melbourne-based CEO & Founder GoTo Skincare, recently as part of The New York Times’ Women & Leadership special feature published online and in print on 6 March, 2020. See the online article here.

New work published on Washington Post: Amidst Australian bushfires, Kinglake remembers 2009

As Australia experienced the devastating bushfire crisis in the summer of 2019/2020, I spent a smokey day in Kinglake for The Washington Post. A small hilltop community an hour from Melbourne, Kinglake that was devastated by the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires.

See the work, accompanied by a feature written by Kate Shuttleworth, on the Washington Post.

New work published on Libération.fr - In Australia, with Victoria fire refugees

During Australia’s bushfire crisis, I spent a few days Wangaratta, north-eastern Victoria working on a story for French daily newspaper Libération. Along with journalist Valentine Sabouraud, we met with fire evacuees, volunteers and emergency services near the Ovens-Complex, in the state’s Alpine areas.

A selection of the images are featured below, you can see the photo essay online here.

New work published on The New York Times: AFL & Concussion Photo Essay

In June I worked on my first assignment for The New York Times, a feature on Australian Rules Football (AFL) and impact of concussion on retired players. The images were published recently, along with an insightful feature by sports journalist Ken Belson. See the story here.

New work published on TIME Magazine: Portrait of Amanda Johnstone

“We are all on our phones all the time, so it made so much sense to create something that’s already in people’s hands, which gives them that nudge to reach out and take a little bit of care of each other.”

— Amanda Johnstone

I had the opportunity to photograph CEO of Transhuman and suicide prevention app Be A Looper, Amanda Johnstone, in Sydney recently for TIME Magazine, part of their annual Next Generation Leaders.

Read about Amanda’s impressive work here, it was such an honour to have the opportunity to meet someone making such a huge difference around the world.

New work on The New York Times: Global Climate Strike, Melbourne

Eight photographers were asked by The New York Times to follow eight young protest leaders in different parts of the world during yesterday's global climate strike. I had the chance to meet and photograph Freya Brown, 16 yr old organiser and MC of yesterday's huge rally here in Melbourne. See the story here.

New work up on The Guardian: The Great Australian Bight

I’ve got some new work up on The Guardian, a feature + photo essay about my time on board Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior III ship, in The Great Australian Bight. This was a collaborative effort with Michaela Skovranova, an incredible underwater photographer based in Byron Bay.

See the work here.