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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: Cedric
Cedric’s Natural state
I’ve done a bit of makeup work with Cedric before. But its previously been either keeping everything super natural and really just a bit of minor adjustments (contours, highlights you know the deal) or flirting into the feminine, drag world (drag used used in the purely acronymic sense of D.R.A.G – “Dressed as Resembling A Girl” and less in the show girl, drag queen sense). This time around i wanted to stop flirting with the idea of the female persona and actually do a transformation on Cedric. I have strangely enough only ever done one full-on male to female transformaion on a man other than myself and it was the first time I had ever done one on anybody, myself included and I was only doing it because I had to (yay beauty school), needless to say it was not great.I did manage to avoid using glitter though, go me! So for me I guess this shoot with Cedric was really an experiment of my own skills and of what I could do with Cedrics face with the… well, limited supplies I own (I also don’t own any typical “drag makeup” or theatre makeup).
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
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 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 