Took a few photos for  new Australian designer Dot Drabarek’s label  DOROTA.   Dot  was exclusively in The Corner Store, Paddington in February.

Dot centre left

I  completed the majority of the photography  for the Schizophrenic Research Institute  - Annual Report over the last 12 months

A Deeper Shade of Blue, director doing his post screening Q & A at the Cremorne Orphium theatre last night to an elderly and virtually non surfing audience who wanted more and didn’t want to go home.   

Hogan started work at the ABC and worked on such programs as This Day Tonight and  Four Corners, as both a reporter and producer. He reported from the Vietnam War and conducted interviews with such infamous characters as Idi Amin ( the only Australian journalist to interview Amin.)

In  recent years, he has worked for the Nine Network, as the Executive Producer of the now defunct “Sunday” program, and as Supervising Producer of “60 Minutes”. He currently works with Andrew Denton’s company Zapruders’ Other Films as a script editor.

This is one of the few recent times that my  Nikon 15 mm rectilinear lens wasn’t ambushed by flare.

I photographed the RSPCA annual report for 2011 last  April,  May and June .   Including front, back and fold out  covers. Plus 13 double page spreads.

You can see  the previous years annual report 2010.  Including six full page portraits.

I have half  a dozen images in John Ogdens latest book project including a portrait of Tom Carroll from 2006. City book launch in Surry Hills  1 December . Manly Art Gallery 26 November.

I interviewed Sandy Edwards  in August 2011  and this has turned into a two part series. Part one, Sandy Edwards – The PHOTOGRAPHER will be in the December issue of ProPhoto magazine. Part two, Sandy Edwards – The CURATOR will be in the Summer issue of ProPhoto magazine hopefully out late December or early January.

I interviewed and photographed  Jeff Watson for the February  March  edition of Camera magazine.

Watson and Bernard St Albans the test pilot flew from the English coast to the coast of Norway in eight minutes at 1520 MPH.”I felt as sick as a dog. To get in that thing I had to do a lot of fast talking.  Had to do the ejector training ride in case we had to get out.  Go from 0 mph to 60 mph in one twentieth of a second. Had to do a decompression test like a diver and very quickly and secretly starved of oxygen and said write your name on a pad, of course your getting nitrogen narcosis and giggling and scribbling and they video you and you say that’s not me!   That simulated a rapid decompression in case the aircraft blows a screen and you have to get down. We went to 60,000’ about 13 miles as high as the Concord. In the late 60’s the Lighting was playing policeman  (and they had to get upstairs very quickly) to Russian bombers coming down over the North Sea and deliberately penetrating British airspace. The radar would pick them up and the lightning’s (or whatever) would scramble and chase them away like in the Second World War. We had hoped to intercept a Russian bomber that day.”

I spent several days with the girls in mid March 2011 taking lifestyle pics for there book project. The book  launch is early December  at Avalon

Sheree  Debbie

Jill   Danielle

Taking the drop is  a fascinating biography of four  northern beaches women’s watery journey  -    it has been likened to a cross between Eat  Pray  Love  and Susan Duncan’s  Salvation Creek.

The authors from  top left clockwise  Debbie James, Danielle Du Bois,  Sheree da Costa and Jill Flinton have self published and only 1000 copies available.

The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank

Spark of Genius Black Tie Event – September 9  2011 – Sydney  Town Hall

Prof. Cyndi Shannon Weickert with MC Gretel Killeen

Andrew Hansen introduces the newest Chaser  on Sydney Town Hall steps