2K22 NBA COLLAB – Indigenous Designed Sneakers
A special collaboration with Gamilaroi and Wiradjuri Indigenous artist Allan McKenzie to celebrate leading basketball simulation video game series NBA 2K22. As part of the collaboration, McKenzie customised a pair of adidas Harden Stepback 2.0 basketball shoes and nominated Indigenous charity Red Dust to host an auction for the shoes. Red Dust will receive all the proceeds from the sale to help their mission to reduce chronic disease in Indigenous communities by focusing on physical activity, nutrition and hygiene.
International Tracksuit Party Melbourne : Section 8
Section 8. Host to the best music in the arterial back laneways of Melbourne’s musical heart. On this auspicious International Tracksuit Day, was held the infamous Tracksuit Party from Secret Heat Music.
B-boys and b-girls united in their favourite sportswear brands from Adidas , Nike, Kangol to look fly and breakdance right.
DJ’s included ACN Seymour, Benny Badge, Tofu, Eddie Mac, Live music from Cocoa Noire.
MATILDA LAIDLAW : VIVIEN’S SYDNEY
Matilda Laidlaw is an emerging model signed to Vivien’s Model Agency Sydney.
Photos taken by Jordan Shields.
Art Direction and Editing by Nicole Norelli
Portrait of a Model : HANNAH COLLARD
Meet Hannah Collard, Indigenous Australian / Norwegian model based in Perth Western Australia for Chadwicks Modelling Agency. Would you believe that I have had the privilege of photographing her since the age of 13? Over the years I have helped to assist and support her entry into the modelling world. She is my sister after all! So yes, I am bias!
XPRESS MAGAZINE : THE XX
The XX
UK indie trio The XX begin their Australian tour on the 1st of April at Metro City Perth.
Photos taken for Perth’s Xpress Magazine, you can read music journalist Alfred Gorman’s beautiful review here.
OUTBACK WEDDING : East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Outback of Karratha this July I had the honourable experience to be a part of Ree and Sohei’s traditional Japanese wedding in an Australian setting.
The wedding took place in the historical town of Cossack, Western Australia, just out of Karratha. Ree and her family are from Karratha, Sohei and his family are from Japan.
Hannah Collard signs to Chadwicks
This is my little sister, Hannah Collard, who I began photographing from a very young age, helping to give her the push into modelling. These photos were taken on Cable Beach in Broome.
The photo in the dunes below were part of a feature article I wrote for The Broome Advertiser on her being signed to Chadwick’s Modelling Agency.
Hannah has done quite a lot with her modelling career since, and is now mentoring other young Indigenous Australian models to pursue their careers in modelling.
XPRESS MAGAZINE : UNKLE
All the way from the UK, James Lavelle and his “band” UNKLE played live in a little ol’ place called The Bakery Artrage Complex in Perth, Western Australia.
Introducing an interestingly artistic exploration of the UNKLE soundscape than I previously knew, it was wrong of me to expect the trip hop and dark beats of an UNKLE past, the likes of Psyence Fiction.
Instead, the fourth album “Where Did the Night Fall” from the newest reincarnation of the outfit brings us a moody combination of loud psychedelic rock, live guitars and James Lavelle on the synth with vocals by both Gavin Clark and Joel Bradbury on this live national circuit of Australia.
Songs featured: The Storm, Burn my Shadow, Ablivion, Eye for an Eye.
Encore: Heaven, Lonely Soul, The Time Has Come.
Photos taken for Xpress Magazine