Between the lines – Mikael Wardhana
Between the lines
“Between the lines” is one of my recent editorial projects inspired by some elements of Greek culture combined with tribal styling. What I wanted to portray here is sophistication and elegance in an unusual way. I wanted to depict an oddness and androgyny-look in this series, hence all the not-so-complete poses from the model. I chose to shoot this project with my Hasselblad V series camera on Kodak Tri-X films.
Mikael Wardhana
Mikael Wardhana is a young fashion photographer recently completing his art degree from RMIT University, Melbourne. He purchased his first camera in 2004 and instantly fell in love with photography as a medium to express himself.
Having studied commercial photography, fashion photography has been his focus for the last 3 years. Mikael’s fashion work has been published in a variety of printed and electronic media, such as The Shutterbug Magazine, The Light Magazine, Capture Magazine and Fallen Magazine. His work has recently been published in major fashion magazines worldwide. Mikael has recently moved to Sydney to pursue his career in Fashion photography.
Landscapes about Us – Ward Roberts
Landscapes about Us
Ward Roberts’ Landscapes About Us series is a distilling exploration of loneliness and isolation.
Robert’s casts his lens to both natural and urban environments in search of locations of melancholic stillness. Rich in all life but human, a sense of desertion & desolation resonates across these landscapes. Arresting silence fills each frame. The landscape is a character; a flesh-less substitute for a lonely human soul who has endured trying times and relationships, but rests now in solitude. Robert’s employs tight formal compositions, but pure minimalism is frequently disrupted by a single object of significance which punctuates the vacant landscape.
Ward Roberts
Ward Forsyth Roberts was born in Adelaide. He lived abroad in Hong Kong for a number of years and returned to Melbourne, Australia where he studied photography in High School.
Ward went on to study photography at RMIT University and graduated with a Bachelor of Photography in 2008.
In the same year, he was awarded the Victorian Photography Student of the Year award in the portraiture category, the ACMP Les Walkling award for Architectural, Industrial and Commercial Photography, the Irwin Maclaren Landscape Award and the Blindspot exhibition peoples choice award.
Interesting Faces – Stephen David
Interesting Faces
These images are from a series titled “Interesting Faces”. After approaching people in the street I placed them by a nearby wall and took 6-12 images. The whole process from “Hi” to “Bye” took 4-5 minutes, with the actual photography taking less than 1 minute. Taken at busy locations, like Flinders Street, meant that most people were in a hurry and rushing by.
All portraits were shot on 35mm film or digital and some were taken with on-camera flash.
The idea of the series stemmed from the old addage of “looking at the ordinary and seeing the extrodinary”. The simplicity of the headshots relies on the subject and their expressions.
Stephen David
Originally from India, Stephen arrived in Australia in 1969. In 2000, he completed his degree in Photography at RMIT Universtiy, Melbourne.
Having studied commercial photography, he has mainly focused on personal work for the last 9 years, with the exception being a number of weddings he has photographed. He looks forward to exhibiting his personal work in the near future.
Untitled – Stewart Leishman
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This series is a personal ongoing documentation of urban commuters in their urban environment. My original inspiration started whilst capturing contemporary architectural buildings with daily commuters in their day to day environment.
I began to relate to these people on their quest to reach a destination, a goal, which I guess is what we spend most of our lives doing. I’ve also found in my own experiences that the lightness & darkness in each image somehow represents the 2 sides to most human behavior patterns with all the shades of grey in between.
Stewart Leishman
Stewart was born in Sydney, grew up in Cairns and now lives in Melbourne. His profession for the past 12 years has been cooking, working as a chef. He accidentally discovered photography whilst on a holiday in Hong Kong. With a Sony Cyber shot point & shoot, there was no stopping.
Even now, after two and a half years of photographing, he is surprised to look back at the images that he created without knowing any compositional laws. A friend commented that he had an eye after viewing snap shots, however it needed refining. “It was that moment that could have crushed my hopes and dreams but his encouragement lead me on to the path of photography”.
Untitled – Dan O’Day
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It’s the witching hour. That time of night where everything outside is completely still. My senses are heightened and soon become exaggerated…all thoughts quickly convert to paranoid realizations. Before I know it the pounding coming from inside my chest is the loudest sound in the room, “stop thinking, stop thinking, stop thinking”
Am I alone? Or are there other bedroom soldiers out there at war with their own imagination.
Dan O’Day
Holding his first solo photographic show in 2006, Dan has held a number of solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions since. His work has been well documented in the Canberra press as well as being included in a number of national publications. He has been lucky to be the recipient of numerous art awards, including the Canberra Critics Circle 2007 Photographic Award and in 2009 being a “Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize“ finalist.
His latest solo exhibition “My Paper Pictures” was held at the Catherine Asquith Gallery in Carlton,Victoria.
The FilmMosaic Project – Shane Rozario
The FilmMosaic Project
The “FilmMosaic” project is a way of seeing with my camera and mimicking the way I observe everything everyday. I find that my eyes dart to various parts of the subject that grab my attention and make sense of the big picture.
I wanted to reflect this way of ‘seeing’, in the portraits of these musicians who see fragments of the world through the people and the places on which their tours take them. They also have to make sense of the big picture from the segments they see while on tour.
Shane Rozario
Shane was born in Bombay, India in 1972. At the age of 11 he migrated to Sydney with his parents and 2 sisters.
While travelling the UK from 1998 to 2001, he photographed many bands and music festivals, such as Ben Harper’s “Will to Live” tour.
When he returned to Sydney Shane began working as full time Assistant for the Advertising Photographer Ian Butterworth and became involved in digital photographic reproduction on a Durst LAMDA.
Continuing his close work with independent bands, artists and music communities, Shane began to explore concepts and ideas which have led to the FilmMosaic series shot on film, of major music acts from Sydney and around the world.
