Beachside Delights

Casuarina Beach, Northern NSW.

Finding its way into my inbox this morning are some pics from my Dad, Alan. Rather than sitting in an office it seems he is out and about enjoying a leisurely morning at the beach. For Fathers Day on Sunday, we gave him a new waterproof camera, designed for the surf. It's a Go Pro Surf Camera and evidently does a great job of taking stills and though I am yet to see it, it's also able to capture video. It's a great little camera, designed to be strapped onto a wrist or onto the nose of a surfboard. Alan has captured the above images by fixing the camera to the front of his kneeboard, yes that's right he is a kneeboarder, and one of the few left of a dying breed. 

There is heaps on info and footage online about the Go Pro cameras. Plus if you too are interested in Kneeboarding, Dad spends his pre-mature retirement shaping boards and chatting across the globe with fellow Kneeboard enthusiasts. He has built himself a small website, Native Kneeboards, feel free to check it out!

...and so I curled up next to her

SHOWCASING : JESSICA TREMP

'When I was little I used to dream about being a dancer or that I could fly and that I would learn to speak the language of the animals in the forest or that of the most dramatic actor. With the click of a finger I’ve found a way to make these things come true.' (Jessica Tremp).

Although quite young, Jessica Tremp sure has made a name for herself. Born in 1981, she grew up in Switzerland before moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 18. Having attended very few photography classes, Jessica is primarily a self-taught photographer. Her talent and recognition stem from a string of awards and well received exhibitions and publications. 

Her style of photography is one that embraces natural light, which 'she feels gives her the freedom to shoot more spontaneously and organically... She focuses on relationships between self and space or humans and animals. She tries to blur the boundaries not only between species, but also between the beautiful and the eerie, comfort and fear, submission and dominance, finding moments of hope, connection and trust in a nature that seems to slip through your fingers.'  

To view more of her work or find out more about this young lass, head to her website and prepare to be captivated.... (I've already set one of her images to display on my desktop)!

A statement about her work:

'These series of portraits are ones of comfort and fear, loneliness and connection, submission and dominance in a world of ambiguous narratives, leaving behind a kind of emotional authenticity rather than a literal accuracy and finding moments of hope and trust in the unusual.'  

Todd Selby + Converse

 Behind the scenes video 

Todd Selby of The Selby interiors website and book recently photographed the spring/summer Jack Purcell ad campaign for Converse. After seeing these ads firsthand flicking through some magazines, they are clearly striking and funny. The campaign features charlie casley-hayford, clark james gable, harry mcnally, mirabelle marden, and skye forsyth-peters in their daily habitat. This mix of people, locations, the tip of a shoe representing a smile and classic branding results in a very memorable print campaign. Todd Selby has also worked with companies such as Nike 6.0, The New York Times, Architectural Digest and Vogue Paris. Contact us at Tusk today for more information on the design of print campaigns. 

We Folk

I thought I would leave you with some images from some of the photographers behind the We Folk Agency. The Agency was set up to build and develop the work of an exceptionally talented bunch of photographers. You could get lost for hours looking through the work of  Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Frederike Helwig, Nadav Kander, Viviane Sassen, John Short, Ewen Spencer, Massimo Vitali, Christian Weber, and  Tappin Gofton. I urge you take a look. 



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