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Top folio shots 2013: July-December

Last year saw some fabulous work cross my desk. Folio edits seem to absorb much of my time at the beginning and end of the year, and this year is no different. Unfortunately there wasn’t anything too inspiring in August last year, so I gave it a miss. Equally, there has been so much great

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Coffee and Connections

This morning I am decompressing from a workshop I ran yesterday here in Wellington, New Zealand. During the workshop I was assisted by a lovely young lady called Summer who generously offered to collect me from the airport when I arrived. ‘I’ll be the Japanese girl wearing African braids’ she said. Funnily enough, I had no problem

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Who the Bloody Hell are You?

At the recent AIPA Image Nation Conference in Auckland, photographers were asked to submit questions to a panel of advertising creatives and art buyers. One of the questions which raised eyebrows and had some of the panellists squirming in their seats was:  ‘Why do ad agencies fly in high-profile photographers from Australia to shoot big budget

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On the sticky subject of shooting for friends

It’s a Saturday morning and an appropriate time to be thinking about this topic. You’re sitting with your friends drinking your flat white at a cafe, discussing everything from kids to dogs to work and the universe. Life is good. Someone mentions a quandary they or a sister in law or their lifelong business partner

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