Mzungu Bambaataa.
I’m entering some printed images into an exhibition for the first time ever.
This Friday & Saturday at the Ice Cream Factory in West End, Brisbane.
There will be some shots from an earlier post Ill Manor featured, as well as images from Eastern and Southern Africa entitled Mzungu Bambaataa.
You can see a large nugget of the pictures I took in africa HERE on a tumblr I made to host them.
It was incredibly hard narrowing it down to just a few images…what are your thoughts on the ones I selected?
Wailin’ Kunzie.
Anyone who’s been to the corner of Albert+Elizabeth streets in Brisbane AUS knows this guy.
He can be found there daily kill-in-it on his acoustic, plugged into a small shotty old amp.
He plays wailing old blues and barely ever sings.
I always make sure I give him money even if he’s not playing cause I know that when he does it will blow my mind.
Film = Tmax 400
Camera = Nikon FM2
Willy Williams.
Willy Williams = Australian Skateboarder.
He lives in Brisbane, QLD.
When he’s not surfing in Central and South America, you’ll find him skating his smaller board around Brisbane city swishin in-n-out of busy people.
Shot on Tmax400 Film + Developed in Tmax Developer.
Camera used = Pentax K1000.
Any questions? pls ask!
West Side Creatures.
West End in Brisbane has some of the most amazing street art in Australia / The World.
Sometimes you just have to dig a little to find it.
I took these on the only roll I’ve ever shot on a Diana F+ camera.
These were all taken in the same block. They will soon be GONE.
It is now a storage site for surrounding construction sites.
Venice Queenie.
I traveled to Venice Beach, California, USA in 2009.
I spent only 2 days there as I was in transit back home to Australia after I had everything I owned including my car stolen from me in South Beach, Miami.
These following pictures are just a few from a disposable camera that I purchased from a grocery store with minimal funds I was lent from a friend.
The Catwoman Sunglasses the people are wearing I found near a dumpster in Miami just before I caught my flight to L.A.
Somehow in a demolished state of mind I decided to put the only two things I had together (1.disposable camera 2.catwoman sunglasses) and shoot a little project.
Above each pic is a description of who it is / how I got the shot.
BELOW: L-R Jake Doyle, Alejandro, Myself, Tayo, Rhyss
BELOW: I got this shot of Tayo just after we both started hallucinating on the acid that we bought on Venice Beach for $6.
BELOW: This guy was homeless and scary as hell. He made me promise to give him the glasses to keep if I took a pic. Of Course I wasn’t going to give them to him. Jake (first picture pink shirt) and I wrestled him to the ground and got them back off him. He started saying some heavy shit like he was going to bring a whole army of underground homeless to find me and kill me. Which would probably be all fine if I wasn’t starting to feel the acid HARD. I got the hell outta there.
BELOW: This lady was high-as-a-kite on crack in the middle of a busy street just off the beach trying to swat cars down with her tennis racquet. You can see it tucked under her arm. As I crossed the street she asked me for a light so I gave her one. While she lit up her cigarette I lay down on the road and snapped this shot of her. After I left she continued to swat at passing cars.
BELOW: This madman was in charge of the hostel that I stayed at. I sat down with him after the sun came up in the stairwell listening to stories about his 25 years in Venice Beach. I was also thankful that he didn’t call the cops on us after Jake (first pic pink shirt) actually threw a man down 15 stairs for trying to steal his gear from his room.
Ill Manor
Ill Manor was for a long time a local and international artist’s abode in the suburb of West End, Brisbane QLD Australia.
It had numerous occupants in it’s years as a launch pad for the musical, painting and circus underground.
Many parties and gigs were had. Notably the gig upstairs in the main room Involving Kafka, a super dirty lo-fi afro-beat collective. (first image)
Laneous & The Family Yah shot part of their timeless film clip for ‘Oh She’ there.
Watch it (I recommend in HD) here: Laneous & The Family Yah – Oh She
In June 2011 it was sold to a new owner who had no sense of what it was and he gave notice to leave for all inhabitants.
Certain relics have been obtained by some of the artists and still exist, such as the painted front door, and the original land deed to the property.
I went in during the very last week of it’s existence and took some B&W photos using TMAX100 35mm film and a Pentax K1000 camera.
Malawi Gold
I traveled to Malawi in Eastern Africa in January this year. It was so astoundingly beautiful without even trying to be.
Easily my favourite country from my travels through Africa so far.
Western Oz
I’m diggin western australia more and more every time i travel there.
Headed over recently with emma louise & gang for the final leg of our national tour.
smoked a roompa and rode a bike around Fremantle on a day off with my new film camera – Nikon FM2
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