keeping up posting work from the last year. some days are just a dream in the studio as a lighting person and this was one of those days where we really just all had a dialogue which aligned so well. @noemiottiliaszabo is just such a dynamic, trusting and coherent person to make pictures with, and the pictures bring this across perfectly, covering so many different moments with the light but all speaking a common language too.
thank you so much to @_celine_sheridan_ and @_annie_alvin on styling and set for making all these huge shifts work also, as well as @kiki.mck@phoebeveitch and @akti_mk for making it all sit right.
extra love to @marth_ahh for the help on digi+light and @accoutrementstudio for the glorious space, not to forget @kata_janik for putting it together
featured in Tatler
I first met @sophiajhk when the wonderful @mildambr asked me to light the cover they were working on for Sophia’s upcoming album (which is now out in the world! Go check it out!). It ended up being one of my favourite lighting setups I have ever done, really getting the mirrors working to do things that aren’t possible without them (check the falloff and angles nerds). We ended up working together to make a music video out of thin air last minute for one of the singles for the album. As Milda wasn’t free, I stepped up to shoot it myself, and the project became very close to my heart creatively, as the location and lighting concept were both long term ideas of mine which I offered up as I felt they perfectly suited what Sophia was wanting to achieve creatively with the video.
Long story short, it ended up being an absolute graft to get it done, and I have to concede that my major take away from this is to hire a camera assistant in future (holla at me people). Pulling focus yourself at t2 with a Dedo as the key while shooting handheld was fun for sure. Most of the project was lit with one of my SOX Low Pressure Sodium Vapour tubes which I will speak about elsewhere - I had thought we’d be able to weave the warmup cycle of the lamp into the video as it aligns with the progression of the song almost perfectly, starting a nearly pastel pink and as the sodium vaporises becoming a visceral, bright yellow. It didn’t work out in the edit, as didn’t a few of my other favourite shots. I don’t want them to get lost completely so here they are in all their noisy, ungraded, saturated and flickering glory, alongside the beautiful stills that brought the project to being.
Thank you so much to everyone involved - Sophia for making such a delicate, considered record for us to weave a visual landscape around (make sure you go take a listen!), Milda for being such a talented and trusting image-maker to work with, @schneiderchronicles , @ezrajolly_ & @marth_ahh for your clutch help across the shoots, and @caeldevers on the set for the stills.
By far the coolest thing about being a full time assistant/lighting person is all the amazing projects you get to be a part of and all the amazing people you get to work with. This one really was special. The wonderful @lorde for @dazed ! Thank you @weanowak for having me on and trusting me with my mirror madness, and @zaraeloise for being so great to work alongside (and for affirming my inner kiwi identity!), as well as everyone else on the team (esp @_jennyluojenny_ for the help on photo team)
type of girl to run a solaris on a thinkpad for “vibes purposes” and dollsplain to you the tragic fall of sun microsystems to oracle
thank you @hollywhittaker for having me on this fun project !
lighting tech for @vidarlogi shooting @bjork for le monde & noir magazine - gonna start posting more work so people don’t think I have moved to the desert
1-3. great central road, laverton - warakurna, 783km, 2 days, best bush camping spot of the trip.
4. giles meteorological station
5-11. sandy blight junction road, warakurna to kintore, 391km, 3 days, most stunning landscapes as you weave about the dunes skirting the frederick ranges and davenport hills.
12. gary junction highway, kintore to gary junction, 521km, 2 days, 2 tyres swapped out
from there we went south into the gibson desert as i spoke about in the last post into really remote country compared to the prior week:
gary highway, gary junction to windy corner, 174km, 1 day
talawana track, windy corner to marble bar road, 596km, 2.5 days, 1100km no fuel stops!
despite the latter part of the trip being more remote/exposed practically speaking, the sandy blight junction road feels extremely remote, because it quite weaving and meandering perhaps. it has a really ancient character to the land, a stillness that is quite overwhelming. hope to be back there again soon with some more days on my hands.
the last few days have been something incredibly special to me. I got to do something I have always dreamed of, to travel directly through the Gibson desert in the outback of Western Australia (where some of you might know I grew up). The Gibson is perhaps one of the most sparsely populated regions of the planet, with only one community of 39 people (patjar) within its 156,289 square kilometres. Patjar can only be reached via the south so in the northern areas it is completely empty and traversed only by a few outback tracks, notably the Gary Highway and the Talawana Track. Today we finished our last day on the Talawana, crossing the Cannjng Stock Route at Well 33, after three days driving through some of the most isolated roads anywhere. Our route had 1100km or so between fuel stops (truck carries 250L of diesel) and in three days of driving we saw not a single person, just endless spinifex, clay pans and mulga. Despite the emptiness, it has a real spirit of place - the areas near here are where the last uncontacted aboriginal Australians lived their traditional and ancient nomadic lifestyle, right up until the 80s, and you cannot help but see the profoundness of their ability to thrive here in the areas colonialism could not reach.
