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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 (as in makeup, not inner beauty, wtf?)
Weird as stock photo
Its kind of a weird concept when you strip it all back. We put these various combinations of chemicals, oils and colours on our faces and bodies in order to change our faces so that they are somewhat closer to this idea of perfection. But of course beauty is subjective isn’t it? That’s what our parents and friends tell us. Of course *brooding music plays* “THE MEDIA” wants us to think otherwise. You may now be thinking that I’m going to go into the battle of subjective beauty and conventional beauty and well I’m not going to so shame. Personally I think that conversation is one of the most tiring and pointless one can possibly enter in. Continue reading
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 2 (groan, yawn, cry, etc)
Waterbaths and nipple pasties last night at Kagi
Welcome to another extraordinarily hurried blog post about fashion week, I literally just arrived at the Viaduct Events Centre and I am due backstage right now to take photos of whats happening for Salasai and hang out with Cedric. But yesterday was pretty fabulous, highlights were Riddle Me This and Andrea Moore. Riddle me this was by far my favourite of the day with 90’s trash, pastel celestial realness on display SEE BELOW yo! Continue reading
Goddess//Mab’s Room
So tonight is the openning night of Godess & Mabs Room: A Double Bill, a dear friend of mine, Sam Brooks wrote both of these plays and right now is totally stressing out about everything. But yeah you should go, I went and saw Goddess last year and it was super good. I shot the posters for Goddess and Mab’s room, the original photo’s you can see below but anyway thats not the point because YOU SHOULD GO! I am going on saturday night (come see me, whatevs, u know u wanna). To book tickets you can fly on over to iTicket and score yourself a sweet deal because it is only $20 to see 2 plays, thats $10 a play. WAIT… IF YOUR A STUDENT ITS ONLY $15 CRAZAAAAAAAY also you can click attending or whatnot on the facebook event page .
Go see it ok.
I was going to do a “Freaky Friday” post summing up my week but then I realized its thursday
Broncollar
First off, that title sounds like a Fall Out Boy song title and I love it, also “Broncollar” is potentially the worst obscure photography joke I have ever come up with. I shot with Bronwyn again on sunday for her totally tubular blog, she is really great, awesome, super fun and various other positive adjectives which I cannot think of at the moment (I am really not in the mood for writing right now). Other things that happened this week include me getting hold of some new makeup (some of which was in yesterdays “Totally Tangerine” post and some more will feature later in this post), Truebliss performed their new song on Good Morning which you can view →HERE ←. Truebliss’s resurfacing lead to a journey through New Zealand pop music which lead to one of the greatest musical feats in our great countrys history (in my opinion), Deep Obsession. “Richard! Deep Obsession sound really familiar but I cant remember what their songs were?! HELP ME?!!” I hear you ask, well I am here to remind you of the beauty that is Deep Obsession. Continue reading
Lifestyles of The Richard Famous 