Violent Soho at The Zoo

It's been an eventful year, the lead up to my exhibition was pretty crazy, going through 15 years work was quite an experience, and the exhibition itself was a significant landmark to me, it was a very strange feeling walking into the Powerhouse on opening night and seeing the entire building full of my photos. Apologies to anyone who saw my 'speech' I still have no idea what I said.. Thanks so much to everyone who came and saw the show!

Rock and Roll at The Brisbane Powerhouse.

After the show I had every intention of adopting a less is more attitude to shooting, to be a bit more selective, and not let myself get quite as snowed under with hundreds, if not thousands of images to deal with every week. It worked, a bit, though somehow my plan of 2010 being a quieter year still ended up with me shooting 181 bands at 66 shows and 5 festivals at about 20 different venues. Sigh..

The Dead Weather ........................................Wilco

In 2010 my work was published in Timeoff, Jmag, Rolling Stone, The Courier Mail, The Australian and Yen Magazine to name a few, The State Library of Queensland now has 8 of my photos in it's permanent collection, as do the 30+ awesome individuals who bought prints from my exhibition so far. I licensed photos to one feature film and one TV series, and shot promotional photos for Texas Tea and Halfway, with my Gin Club, Seja, We All Want To, An Horse and Robert Forster photos getting a decent run through the year too.

This set of 25 photos were hard to chose, I picked an arbitrary number, and  just went with the ones taken in 2010 that I though were successful as photos, most were published somewhere, though a few are personal favourites that never made it to print.

If you're interested in publishing any, or buying prints just email me here? Thanks!

Thanks also of course to all the bands, editors, punters, promoters,venues, publicists, managers and publications that make this weird and wonderful job possible, a fab 2011 to you all. Rock on, and so on.

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Sunset Sounds 2011 is rushing towards us, so thought I should finally get a few of these up. I posted a few YYY's photos earlier this year, here's some more of the rest of the bands.

Unlike some summer festivals Sunset Sounds 2010 was a pleasure to shoot, I missed the 2009 event for some reason? Dunno. Set in the botanic gardens, not tooooo many people, and what seemed to be an unusually low percentage of shirts off, tacky tribal tatt woo! merchants. Nice.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moby, Grizzly Bear, King Khan and Seasick Steve all caught my attention, I wasn't on a mission to shoot everything, so pretty much picked the acts I actually wanted to see. There's a gallery below with a few more photos, and even more over here if you fancy it.

I'm looking forward to Joan Jett, Interpol, PE, Tame Impala and The Soft Pack next year, and hopefully a similar woo! to human ratio : )

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Karen O, of  Yeah Yeah Yeahs, sporting some classic after 5 wear. Always loads of fun to shoot.

Another from Sunset Sounds 2010 in Brisbane, fun festival, really well organised, nice lights and a pretty diverse lineup, I hope they do it again..

More photos from the festival here: Sunset Sounds 2010 on flickr and more YYYs below..

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Editors at Sunset Sounds 2010 - Brisbane Riverstage.

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