putting words into action.

The first job that I did in Melbourne was with photographer Josh Robenstone. http://www.joshrobenstone.com. Josh is a Melbourne based freelance photographic artist, specialising in documentary and street photography in the city and across the world. I got excited by his website when I fell upon it during a daily photographic google search for Melbourne in the “tripleN’ period and emailed him straight away about work. He got back to me with an assisting job offer for the following week as soon as he was back from his travels in Europe. The first time I called him when he was back, was when he was at the famous MCG watching his much-loved team St Kilda win the match on the final whistle and was greeted by a huge cheer! I met him a day or two later at his studio on easey street, just off the stylish and quirky smith street to get briefed on the job. The studio was shared by the likes of graffiti artists, t-shirt printers, graphic artists and more photographers and the space was decorated in a cool collaboration of all these individual’s visual talents, and partly scattered by a litter of beer ring pulls from a recent big studio party. The job was for a large advertising agency, Clermenger, who wanted a small brochure/ booklet that showcased the brands that they manage to use in an ad-agency competition. Over the next week we photographed on location for brands such as Mercedes, M&M’s, Ski Yoghurt, Carlton Draft, Sorbent & Dulux. We worked on the shoot with the art director & others who were involved and had input into the images, it was great to see in a professional environment how everyone worked together and how much input the different roles played into the final shot. As assistant I was mainly on lighting control, but as everyone got more comfortable with eachother over the week, I started giving more personal opinion in regards to what was on screen and making small suggestions on how to change or improve the shot. one key lesson from this job was the need for coffee! Some days I was up at 5am to get on location and me and Josh were on coffee hunt from early hours or chilling in Chibi’s café (I cant remember exactly how this is spelt but it’s a sweet little coffee place just round the corner from the studio which I absolutely recommend. it also sells novel & unique little ornaments./ household accessories/ cute origami to add the the coffee experience. if your ever in the area, go) The last shoot on friday was conveniently at the carlton draft brewery and so after a long but good week we all went to the pub and had a couple of pints of Fat Yak beer. the exec’s left for home and josh, rone and myself went back to gallery above the studio for more beers at an exhibit night put on by an artist to display his new work. The night carried on until the early hours and I felt lucky to have only been in the city for a few weeks and have had a great photographic encounter already. off to a good start kiddos.