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Paganin House by Iwan Iwanoff
In case you haven’t heard this Floreat landmark caught fire last night and is in pretty bad shape. I will forever think of this house as the Fini house. Adrian I shot there at least three times during the Fini years, including a memorable winter fashion shoot for Perth retailers of yore, Aherns, on a…
Adventure Beckons!
After four years Darren, erstwhile assistant and ideas guy here at the studio, is joining the ever swelling ranks of Acorn alumni. A native of Virginia, USA, Darren came to us via Boston, New York and France. He’s now headed for the bright lights of Amsterdam (no, no, not the red ones you fools!) to further…
Black Swan 2016 Season Programme Shoot
Every year there’s one phone call we look forward just about more than any other – it’s the call from Geoff at Dessein Graphics asking us if we’d like to get our teeth into the Black Swan State Theatre Company’s upcoming programme. Hell yeah. Production of the 2016 season programme marks the 5th year of our partnership…
Pippin Drysdale – WA State Living Treasure
How cool is that? Pip’s work has been recognised, awarded and collected worldwide. She was made a Master of Australian Craft in 2008 and now she’s been recognised here in WA as a State Living Treasure. Pip’s status as a treasure has been well known to us since we started photographing her works almost 20 years…
Black Swan 2014 Programme
It’s been four years, a long term relationship in this biz, and we feel dead cosy working as part of WA’s crack black ops theatre promotion team. Geoff and Esther of Dessein go in hard on behalf of design cred, Nancy and Kate from Black Swan State Theatre Company provide the best support and occasional loud…
A Tale of Two Thefts
A couple of days before last Christmas I noticed our front door was open as I came downstairs at 5:50AM. Odd, front doors aren’t supposed to be open in the night while you and your family sleep. Turns out our front door had been forced in the night and along with A MacBook Air thieves…
Darren Smith – A Thousand Facets
Some time ago I was approached by sound artist Leah Blankendaal to collaborate with her on an installation based around distortions and refractions. Our ad hoc coffee shop manifesto nailed down one absolute: both of us wanted the exhibition to be experienced in fantastic reality, rather than virtual reality. This series carries a culmination of interests for me. I love pure…
2013 AIA Award Winners
With Rob off on holidays, I ventured out to the WA Chapter of the AIA last night to fulfil my duty to photography, architecture (and champagne) at Perth Concert Hall. My first ever AIA awards night gave me a sense of the full scale of projects happening across WA, as well as a great insight…
Perth Arena
If part of the function of Perth Arena’s freak yachting accident exterior is to excite public debate it must be judged a success. Like an in-your-face youth with unresolved childhood issues and a new tattoo, its lumbering slab sides are confrontational and immediately polarising. Perhaps as the landscape around it changes over the next decade…
San Cisco in Treadlie Magazine
Fellow pilots of human powered vehicles in Australia will have noticed that until a couple of years ago our newsstands catered only to the mountain bikers and two wheeled race fans. Treadlie is the bike mag for the rest of us; commuters, e-bikers, weekend cruisers, polo nuts and, it would seem, a surprisingly large proportion…
Pet Photo Booth
The Perth Fringe Festival has been all the buzz in the office this morning. Rob’s done the Stoney Joe gig, Shirley recommends the Bogan Bingo, and for the last two weekends I’ve slipped off the commercial hat and have been moonlighting as an artist photographer at Pet Photo Booth. Our studio for the…
Guy Grey Smith
There are just 100 of them, they’re slipcased and they’ve been hand numbered and signed by the illustrious Mr Gaynor himself. And we’re giving one away. Read on winners! Every West Aussie with a creative bone in their body knows that one of the most potent catalysts for great art is our comparative isolation. …
Helping the Devil
“Devil of a Cookbook” is the brainchild of Tasmanian chef Fiona Hoskin. TBH I don’t know her from Adam. Actually, I would probably know her from that Adam but, ahhhk, don’t distract me… I’m hungry… Many of the recipes are contributions from Thermomix users and demonstrators, taste tested and refined in kitchens across this wide…
Anna Gare’s first cookbook – “Homemade”
Shooting “Homemade” took ten days at Anna’s joint in Freo. We road tested 97 recipes and can testify to their bold and glorious goodness. Along the way we had to contend with high winds blowing our set over as well as an occasional sense of, well, impending weight gain. Food stylist Ursula Nairn and assistant…
Adam Cruickshank Woodcraft Design
You know we love to post about exotic locations and crazed crocodile fighting maniacs but some of the best stories are right under our noses. Check this – just amazing hand crafted furniture. Adam Cruickshank’s designs are always a real pleasure for us to have in the studio. On his last trip to the ‘smoke…
2012 AIA WA Chapter Award Winners
Last night was awards night for the WA Chapter of the AIA. It’s been a few years since I attended but as a lay judge (in the Heritage category) I felt duty bound to show my face. And fill it with entrée, main and dessert of course. How firmly David Karotkin’s tongue was pushed into…
John Hyde MLA
We recently spent an delightful afternoon photographing John Hyde in and around his electorate. John’s been representing for the people of Perth in WA’s house on the hill for over a decade now. Inner urban isn’t what it used to be – John’s seat takes in the CBD as well as the rapidly changing residential areas…
Café Corporate cawfee packaging
Geoff (not his real name*) from Dessein Graphics had been using stock photography for their award winning coffee packaging work. He wanted to take the client to the next level though, yep, commissioned retro photography. On the face of it this was a great little shoot; Café Corporate had four fresh new blends of the…
Characters of the Kimberley
Five days in WA’s beautiful north west photographing four people for a character based tourism campaign – what could possibly go wrong? Here’s a clue. Cyclone. Lua. Day one went OK. If you don’t count the loss of a bag of light stands and a tripod. Claire the Client picked me up at the airport…
We’re moving
Our little patch of Townshend Road, Subiaco, has seen a lot of changes since the mid nineties when we set up shop there. In fact a quick audit of the area between Hay St and Subi Oval has us as the oldest business. True fact. Anyways, we’re gorn. We’re leaving East Subi for the gentle…
