Category: Fashion
We Shot Salasai
Eden, Ozz & Penny. Photos by Adam Bryce assisted by myself
So I have been working with Adam Bryce a lot recently. And one of the many many highlights of this was being a part of a mini lookbook shoot held back stage at Salasai’s which he shot. I was assigned to beauty shots, which i shot in a very similar fashion (quick, dirty and raw). I would recommend everybody be a part of a 2 person team tasked with shooting essentially 2 lookbooks, behind the scenes and a runway show all within the space of a couple of hours. It is both fun and stressful, especially when the lookbook images needed to be processed and graded within an hour of the show finishing for distribution purposes. Mac was on makeup, keyed by Amber D. Stephen Marr was on hair and styling by Dan Ahwa.
The un-retouched beauty of Tia
Kelvin, Ngahuia & Lauren
Sam, Tia & Natalia
Gisele, Lydia & Felix
Also can we just take a moment to appreciate those jewels. So rad
Lookbook photos by Adam Bryce, Close-ups by Richard Symons
Beauty: Aurum
Check that azure accent
My thoughts behind this weeks look was gold, if you have ever studied my photography (you haven’t, no one has ever) then you may have noticed that I hate photographing gold. I prefer my images to look like they were shot in the depths of winter, even if there is flare flying around, and bokeh coming out the ying-yangs my images tend to always look a bit cold. I think its because i prefer the way blue tones come across on film (or on digital I guess). So with this week I wanted to challenge myself a bit, and shoot a considerable amount of gold. I shot with yet another familiar face, dancer, poet, artist, queen and bad a$$, Jahra. I’ve worked with Jahra numerous times before, on my personal instillation project “Genesis”, her performance art project “Murdered Many” and filming spoken word down at 1885. She is needless to say one of my favourite people on earth just because she is so cool. Like actually if you haven’t met Jahra you probably think she is real cool, and if you have met Jahra you probably think she is real cool. She also happens to have a very strong sense of personal style, to the point where she has looks that are difinitively her… She is like Madonna, Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga rolled into one in terms of personal iconography. She also happens to be super open to my ideas, and interpretations of her look which excites me a lot.
OH ALSO YEAH SHE IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL I’M GOING TO STOP GUSHING NOW (THERE ARE PHOTOS AFTER THE READ-MORE)
Cori for New Face No Agent
Meet Cori,
I’ve known Cori for a few months now (if you remember that “Spirit” shoot then you would have seen him before) and I kind of just remembered a couple of weeks ago that he is amazing.
Well he is amazing
I worked with one of my besties, Ana Van Schie De Pont on styling/creative direction and got in an assistant (Lei Lei Kung) which is totally weird because normally on my shoots its just me and the model, and Angela if I am shooting NFNA stuff.
Also his photos were uploaded last night to facebook and interest was shown within 20 minutes which is pretty insane.
Enjoy all the amazing images after the jump
Double Department Store: SS2012
My look for The Department Store’s S/S 2012 runway show
If you read the previous post you would know that I had been invited to The Department Store’s spring/summer 2012 runway show held at The Department Store itself in Takapuna. On display for the night was Karen Walker, Top Shop, Topman, Tigerlilly, Ruby/Liam, I love ugly and Blackbox (if I forgot someone I am sorry as bro). Check out the photos after the jump
Double Department Store: Devo
A month or so ago I got a very last minute call from a friend of mine who works at The Department Store wondering if I was available to shoot an editorial for their upcoming zine. Continue reading
Backstage @ Phoenix Cosmetics: Truly Outrageous
Stud lips anyone?
As a makeup artist I tend to be HYPER critical of makeup during a fashion show so when it comes to a show centred around makeup artistry its really hard for me to not look at things from a purely technical aspect. Technicalities aside the energy and the designs showcased at phoenix were are really great way to help finish the week. The entire show was 80s themed, paying homage to the biggest and most definitive fashion influences of the time. Jem and the holigrams and some strange punk meets Thierry Mugler thingy were the definite highlights for me, anyway enough ranting from me, enjoy the backstage shots I took this morning. Continue reading
NZFW DAY ONE MUDDAFUCKAS
Zambesi A/W 2013
SUPER inapropro title I know but it accurately explains my state of mind right now. I haven’t eaten solid food since monday, and the night before last I got 0% sleep and last night was no where near enough to catch up so currently I am running on pure red bull power and wow this sentence is long and probably need punctuations and a lot less of the word “and”. I am meant to be backstage right now shooting but I stopped off at the bloggers zone to deliver you this.
Marr Factory / The Week that was
Zambesi x Marr Factory
So all of the past week I have essentially been camping out in Ponsonby, mainly due to the week long Marr Factory group of shows starting last Sunday and ending on the Thursday that has just been. In that time we were treated to 5 nights of alcohol free ice cream, babes and some top notch current season collections. I also shot my first model for talent scouting website thingy New Face No Agent. Fun trivia fact about NFNA, you may (read: better) have seen the recent shoot I did with Cedric @ N Model Management, well if you crawl on over to NFNA’s website and scroll down a bit you will find that it was indeed New Face No Agent who initially scouted and got Cedric signed (You can basically tell that me and Angela from NFNA just spent a good half an hour gushing over how amazing he is right?). ANYWAY the girl I shot for NFNA is a total babe. Also me and my friend ANA (stylist, tammie brown impersonator, dutch girl, art student, etc) sometimes like to take photos of.. her (okay sometimes I like to take photos of her and she does it because she loves me), and one night pre Marr Factory we walked through Grey Lynn Park to see that they had left the field lights on (SO NATURALLY WE HAD TO TAKE SAUCY PHOTOS). Well thats enough rambling from me, enjoy the following photos :) Continue reading
You wish you were Blingee
In Accompaniment to the shoot I did with cedric I created some tacky (read: beautiful) myspace gifs which I made from some of the images from the shoot. If you follow me on tumblr or on facebook then you may have seen these slowly being fed to you before the final images were released. Now I present to you the full collection of blingee’s all in one place for your enjoyment :) xoxo
You wish you were me
You cant handle this
HEY GUYS! LOOK AT WHAT ME AND CEDRIC AND ANA AND BEVERLY DID ON SATURDAY!
I’ve known Cedric for a couple of years now and I have been pushing him to get signed for like…. ages so naturally when I heard he got snapped up by N Model Management I was super excited. We’d been sitting on the idea of this shoot for a while now and one of my besties Ana DePont VanSchie (spawn of fashion royalty Doris DePont ) kind of has the best taste in everything crazy and 90’s so we decided to just put all of that together and push out a baby that was somewhere between a 90’s wannabe and Andrej Pejic. I really am ecstatic that Cedric has been signed with an agency that is passionate about him and that really want to work with his skills (and also an agency that actually WANTS him to do mens and womenswear). Cedric really has something special, there aren’t really many male models in NZ that can bring femininity and androgyny to the table. If you follow me on tumblr (if you don’t you should) then you would have seen the teaser gifs for this shoot which I am pretty stoked with (WARNING: They are SUPER tacky and SUPER 90’s). Anyway I am gonna let these images speak for them selves and there is a lot of images. Continue reading
Lifestyles of The Richard Famous 