Songwriting at 4am…
…Let’s hope I have something to post soon
I miss the Broomfields
VanessaJackman.blogspot.com
Joanna for Grazia.it
Thank you to Joanna for being so, so easy to photograph (she really is super chilled and lovely) and a massive thank you to Joanna’s awesome agent in Sydney, Priscillas, for hooking me up with Joanna.
Miss Joanna Broomfield for Grazia.it.
One of the highlights of my recent trip back home to Australia (apart from visiting family and friends of course!) was photographing 5 super cool girls for Grazia.it. And Joanna is the first of the features to go live (yay!). So head on over to Grazia to find out Joanna’s fav places to shop in Sydney, how her experience in Australia’s Next Top Model Competition has changed her life(more on that in a minute), what tracks she is currently chilling to on her ipod and her perfect way to spend the day.
Sooooo some of you Aussie readers might recognise startlingly beautiful British model Joanna from Australia’s Next Top Model competition where she came sixth in the competition out of 16 other girls. So amazing and I am immensely proud of her (in retrospect, as I didn’t meet her until the day of our shoot!). Joanna has already achieved brilliant things in such a short period (she landed the cover of Frankie magazine -one of my favourite Australian publications-just before I photographed her) and I know she has a fabulous modelling career ahead of her. I kept telling Joanna that she has to come back home to Britain (she grew up in the UK and moved to Adelaide, Australia in her mid-teens) as I think she would do brilliantly over here.
Anyhoo, so Joanna now lives in Sydney and I headed on over to her house to photograph her in a few of her favourite outfits. Joanna lives with three other models, two of which were in Australia’s Next Top Model competition with her (the surfboard in the photographs belongs to one of her flatmates…….and if he reads this, I promise it absolutely wasn’t us who put a ding in the surfboard. It was the wind! Honest;) Can you imagine what parties at their house must look like? Beautiful faces, bodies and limbs everywhere :)
Joanna’s style is, in her words, “androgynous and grunge” although I would add in “accessoried with quirky, feminine pieces like rings and necklaces”. She loves trawling the various weekend markets in Sydney for vintage finds (find out where she is currently enjoying hunting for one-off pieces in the Grazia.it article) and likes Zara for basics (who doesn’t?!) plus Australian label Saxony for investment pieces like the leather shorts in these photos.
And before you ask, yep, Joanna has a blog! So head on over to Blogfield.tumblr.com where Joanna posts snippets of things and people that inspire her (like musicians, photographers, and fashion) as well as documenting her own creative journey. As you might have guessed from the guitar in the photographs, Joanna is also a wonderfully gifted musician (and a great cook!) - she sings and plays guitar- and her New Year’s Resolution is to post some of her own music on her blog.
So what was Joanna wearing on the day of our shoot?
Red shorts and white shirt (Zara)
Black dress (Saxony)
T-shirt (vintage) and black jeans (Levi’s)
Black shirt (vintage) and black leather shorts (Saxony)
Jeans, jacket and shirt in the last photos (Levi’s) and brown boots (Wittner).
(Source: vanessajackman.blogspot.com)
Grazia Italia style article
A style article Grazia Italia online wrote on me.
The lovely Vanessa Jackman came to my little apartment and shot me in my clothes and with some of favorite things…. Like my 20 year old, stuffed Martin the monkey. To see the article in a condensed but English version, and with more pics, go to Vanessa Jackman’s wonderful blog! Link to come.
I haven’t posted in a while but visual treats follow tomorrow
JULIA BY WEE KHIM FOR NUYOU
THIS AMAZING EDITORIAL, SHOT BY WEE KHIM FOR NUYOU APRIL 2011, REALLY GAVE ME THE CHILLS. THE MOODYNESS AND EERIENESS TOGETHER WITH THE SEVERITY OF THE LANDSCAPES, CREATE SUCH A MYSTERIOUS AND ENCHANTING FEEL THAT I LOVE.
IN A STRANGE WAY, IT REMINDS ME A LITTLE OF MY MOTHERLAND ENGLAND, PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE DREARINESS OF THE WEATHER BUT ALSO BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW BLEAK IT MAY LOOK, I STILL ADORE IT.
ALL THE ARCHITECTURE AND RUINS IN THIS SHOOT RESURFACE SUCH VIVID MEMORIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD WHEN MY PARENTS WOULD TAKE ME TO VISIT ANCIENT AND AMAZING, CASTLES, CHURCHES AND RUINS, IN ENGLAND. (AND ALWAYS IN THE RAIN FOR SOME REASON). SITES WHICH USED TO ABSOLUTELY BORE ME TO DEATH BUT NOW FASCINATE ME…
(Source: fashiongonerogue.com)
URBAN DELIGHTS
THE STREETS OF SYDNEY ARE CONSTANTLY PROVIDING MY EYES WITH URBAN DELIGHTS BUT I RARELY GET AROUND TO RECORDING THEM. I FOUND A COUPLE I COULDN’T PASS BY THOUGH, SO I TOOK A COUPLE OF SNAPS…
JESSICA MOLONEY AND RACHEL GRASSO FOR CULTURE MAGAZINE
A few days ago one of my best friends, who is also my flat mate, Jessica Moloney, got some pictures back from a shoot she did a while back, alongside model Rachel Grasso, and that have also recently been published in Culture magazine.
I absolutely love the shots and think they are just way too cool for school. I especially love the shots with both Jess and Rachel in them.
Enjoy!
Models: Jessica Moloney @ Priscillas & Rachel Grasso @ Priscillas
Photographed by: Zac Steinic
Styled by: Phoenix Keating
(Source: Fashiongonerogue.com)
PHOTOGRAPHERS
CAMERON HAMMOND
CAM IS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE AND ALSO JUST HAPPENS TO BE AN AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHER! I LOVE ALL THE PROPS AND CHARACTERS HE USES IN HIS SHOOTS, AND HIS USE OF NATURAL LIGHT IS OUT OF THIS WORLD. BUT MY FAVORITE PART OF CAM’S PHOTOGRAPHY, IS THE AMAZING LANDSCAPES AND LOCATIONS HE SHOOTS ON.
I’M HOPING TO SHOOT WITH CAM SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WHEN I CAN LEARN TO ORGANIZE MYSELF AND WILL BE SURE TO POST SOME SHOTS.
FOR NOW THOUGH, I ASKED HIM A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS PHOTOGRAPHY AND FOUND A FEW OF MY FAVORITE SHOTS TO PUT UP.
MODEL: CASEY @ VIVIENS
MODEL: LAURA TYRIE @ CHADWICKS
(BELOW) MODEL: RACHEL @ VIVIENS
WORDS FROM CAM
Q1. DESCRIBE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY IN 4 WORDS…
UNORGANIZED, SPONTANEOUS, OUTDOORSY, PANORAMIC…
Q2. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE LOCATION THAT YOU’VE SHOT AT?
JUST LAST WEEK I TOOK SOME PICS AT A SMALL COMMUNITY OF SHACKS IN THE MIDDLE OF SOME ENORMOUS SAND DUNES. WE WERE STILL THERE DRINKING BEER AND PLAYING GUITARS WITH THE RESIDENTS UNTIL 11 THAT NIGHT. THE LOCALS WERE FASCINATING AND THE LANDSCAPE BREATHTAKING; I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING QUITE LIKE THAT PLACE!
Q3. WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHER(S)?
ANDREW KUYKENDALL, GREG KADEL, GEORGES ANTONI, JASON LEE PARRY, CAMILLA AKRANS, WILL DAVIDSON, CAMERON SMITH
Q4. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU HAVEN’T DONE OR SHOT, PHOTOGRAPHY-WISE (I.E A PARTICULAR STORY OR LOCATION) THAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO/SHOOT?
THERE IS SO MUCH I HAVEN’T DONE AND EVERYTHING STILL TO DO… I JUST NEED TIME AND LOTS OF IT!
I GENUINELY LOVE FINDING LOCATIONS AND EXPLORING INTERESTING ENVIRONMENTS AND I WANT TO KEEP ADDING MOVEMENT AND INTERACTION WITH THE PEOPLE AND PLACES I CHOOSE… I REALLY NEED TO SHOOT A LOVE STORY AND I’VE YET TO PHOTOGRAPH A MALE MODEL. I’LL BE WANDERING AROUND BUSH TRACKS, CARAVAN PARKS AND DODGY MOTELS FOR A WHILE YET!
