Join the circus

HMUA / Body paint: @mjnolan.makeup⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Model: @calyssaunicorn⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Stylist: @digitalissdreaming⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Studio: @urbanjunglestudios⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Assist: @theoriginalbushpirate⠀⠀

Selfie Lab

Model: @jami.logan⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
HMUA: @backstage.beauty

Model: @karinaleighjones⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Makeup: @make_up_by_mir⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Hair: @uniquely_you_hhb⠀⠀⠀

Model: @madeleine_hornsby⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
HMUA: @myra_goldcoasthairandmakeup⠀⠀
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Wardrobe: @weircouture⠀⠀

Model: @sarah.kellyxx⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
HMUA: @backstage.beauty⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Model: @tahlia__jane⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
HMUA: @make_up_by_mir⠀⠀⠀⠀

Flower Fae

Alice

Created at a famous building in my city as a tutorial on how to create giants for my photography membership, Creative Photo Folk.

The fox and the moon

“You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”― Tom Hiddleston⁠⠀

Created for a tutorial on creating a basic composite for my photography membership, Creative Photo Folk.

I like giants

I shot this knowing I wanted to make her a giant but struggled to find the right scene until I stayed at @meritonsuites where they kindly gave me the room with the best view!

Model: @bettiebutcher
Ray guns: @rastralyall
Studio: @urbanjunglestudios

Creation

Recently I’ve been contemplating the nature of creation, which got me thinking about the birth of the universe. That’s what people think about right?

The debate often centres around evolution vs creationism while mythology, which is integral to First Nations people and ancient civilisations, doesn’t enter into the conversation. But it’s these stories that fill the pages of novels and hang on the walls of galleries and inspire us to tell our own.

This one’s a bit different for me but creation is a journey. All of the Photoshop brushes were created from my own photos.

Words escape me

The meaning behind this one is difficult to convey. I can't find the right words to express it. 😎⁠⠀

Hear Us

“I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me—walk in my woods, bathe in my rivers, eat of my harvest—they will find healing to their souls. But stray from me and return to the supposed wisdom of men, and they will find themselves in chains once more.” ― Seth Adam Smith

With Hear Us I wanted to show Mother Nature dressed like a human in an effort to have her concerns taken seriously. I’ve always be in awe of the way life on earth has evolved and maintained a balance but with the rise of humans it appears the balance is shifting faster than the earth can regulate.

Halloween bombshells

Models: @miss_audrey_azure, @the_vintage_kitten, @bettiebutcher, @valentina.volupte⁠

Photographed for a charity event.

White Ribbons

After watching The Social Dilemma and it got me thinking about how much people are manipulated, not just by social media, but by every aspect of our lives. Who would we be if we weren’t constantly being controlled?

People assume my head is full of fairytales, but it’s full of scepticism and doubt. I actually have no clue where the fantasy images manifest from but I’m grateful for the balance.

Silenced

Silenced is for all of you who have been mentally, emotionally or physically abused and are forced to stay silent out of fear, disbelief, loss of reputation, the pain it may cause others, danger, shame, anger, not wanting pity, lack of being believed, smear campaigns, embarrassment, the difficulty in describing the severity of trauma, not wanting to become the abuser, refusing to further feed the beast, worry about being minimised or judged, not wanting to relive the details. Especially when you are already feeling vulnerable, betrayed and wounded. And so we suffer in silence while the abuser is free to abuse again and again and again.

I wanted this image to resemble a painting because abusers are often incapable of seeing their victims in 3D, lacking the empathy that gives people substance and validity. By painting her mouth closed she is drained of colour and dimension.

Silenced is a self-portrait photograph overlaid on an image of paint strokes. The painting like effect was entirely created using Photoshop brushes and filters.