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.

Autumn Leaves

Like autumnal trees humans regenerate by shedding memories, grief, outdated connections and painful experiences to continually evolve, change and grow anew. I created it as a reminder that change is only a decision away for those who feel stuck in difficult circumstances.

The model, Maddy Webster, was photographed in studio and composited onto a background taken at Norfolk Island. I used the dispersion effect editing technique on her dress and face using leave shaped Photoshop brushes. Each of the flying leaves was collected from my surrounding neighbourhood and photographed individually.

Fatal Attraction

A bright idea and a warning not to set yourself alight to keep others warm.

Back breaks and heart aches

This ring of standing stones is not far from my house and whenever I walk by my mind wanders elsewhere. It's the second levitation image I've shot there because ... well ... why wouldn't you? ⁠⠀
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It's really painful to bend your back like this. Dare you to try.

Frank

Experiments with incense smoke and symmetry to create nefarious rabbits from time travel flicks.

Milk dress! 🥛

Big thanks go to:

Trooper @fifties_fatale who held this pose while we repeatedly poured and threw milk at her.

@imagesafaristudios for his most excellent milk toss skills.

Published in @retrolovelymagazine issue 107.❤️

Created as a tutorial for my photography membership, @creativephotofolk.

Reflections

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” - Chris Maser

Created in memory of each of the trees that disappear for more housing.

Train wreck

Gone Dotty

Gone Dotty might be a representation of breaking apart to fulfil all the expectations placed upon a modern life, it might be an expression of the fractured mental state that accompanies forced isolation, or it might just be because I really like dots.
The creation process for Gone Dotty involved cutting out six dots and spending hours throwing them around as I triggered my camera using a remote, and then hours jumping over and over to capture my pose (making my body hurt in ways I didn't know it could) and then even more hours pushing my computer to its limits to combine all the pieces. The title suggested itself.

Totoro

An homage to everyone's favourite forest spirit.

Le Voyage dans la Lune

Glow in the dark costume and paints under UV light with performer, Betty Lovecat and @digitalissdemiwolf.

Escapist

This image was created using forced perspective (my mother held the book and I stood off in the distance to get the size right) with a touch of Photoshop trickery. The background scene is actually a tiny hedge maze. I put my camera on the ground to make everything look larger.​​​​​​​​

The magician's apprentice

Created during one of my compositing workshops as a tutorial about using special effects, now found in my photography membership, Creative Photo Folk.

Model and styling by @digitalissdemiwolf.

Under someone else's cloud

Never be the reason someone asks the universe for peace.