Brisbane Sounds 2009 on Film
As well as taking the usual digital photos at Brisbane Sounds 2009, as previously posted here, I also took a couple rolls of Ilford HP5, rating the ISO400 film at ISO1600 and then developing them for 14 minutes in ID-11 developer. The results are very grainy, as was expected, although slightly less than the photos [...]
Brisbane Sounds 2009 @ The Zoo
It was only when I started processing these photos that the significance struck home; as a photographer you wait years, a lifetime perhaps, for that one perfect split second moment to create an icon, construct the legend or fuel the myth. I know that every few blog posts I end up including a link to this [...]
Screamfeeder + Midget + Butcher Birds @ The Troubadour
Even at the time, 1996 was one of the best years of my life: my PhD was beginning to take shape but was in a worry free stage, still years away from having to write up a thesis, living in an amazing share house with great friends, a beautiful hot summer, a feast of football on [...]
Rave’s UnderExposed Edition
This week’s edition of Rave has the UnderExposed exhibition on the front cover. The montage includes one of my Afrirampo photos (just underneath the ‘-VE” of RAVE). The lead feature is a story I wrote about music photography to promote the exhibition, based on an interview with Time Off photographer Stephen Booth, one of the [...]
Buffalo Tom + Screamfeeder
They say that time flies when you’re having fun. Whether or not this is true, time definitely has flown since the last time that I saw Buffalo Tom, (which from memory was in London at the LA2 in November 1999) let alone the first time that I saw them back in the early 1990s at [...]
Pig City: This Perfect Day
Last Saturday was the Pig City Festival at University of Queensland. When I moved to Brisbane a couple years ago someone recommended the book to me and not knowing anything about the city it was a bit of an eye-opener to find out what a mess the place was in until fairly recently. It was [...]
