50. Artist McLean Edwards..

 

I've been wanting to do another set of images with McLean for some weeks now, finally I pinned him down to come over for an hour or so..

Artist McLean and I, seem to work well together, he is such great subject matter and very aware of the space around him, all I needed was a prop or two and off he went..

Here are the 50 images from that 30 minutes we shot for, I wouldn't usually upload this many, but whilst editing I thought, I'll put them all up as I enjoy them as a series..

http://www.martinbrownefineart.com/edwards12.html

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Carousel Characters..

My very local cafe, Flood Street Carousel has been open for 6 months now and owner Caleb Maynard and I have collaborated on an exhibition of his regular customers..

'Cal' is all for the local community and working with other local business people, to try and develope the Leichhardt area. The cafe has done very well since he opened his doors, in December of last year. I pop down every morning for a couple of coffees and have got to know him and a lot of the regulars well, it's become a real social centre for young mums and business people a like..

I approached Cal a month or so ago and ask about shooting a series of 'real' portraits of his regular customers, Cal loved the idea and we set to work on getting around 24 of them, for the shoot..
Which then in turn would be exhibited at the cafe, with an open night, so all his customers could come down, have a drink and meet each other..

All up I shot around 40 portraits of customers and staff, which we've edited down to the final series of 24.. Cal wanted a real cross section of his daily customers and suppliers, people he has got to know, as well as their order..

I set up a simple lighting rig up in a corner of the cafe and we had a steady stream of people through, on Monday of last week. I approached all the talent the same way and only spent 90 seconds photographing each person, as it is a busy environment and didn't want for people to be too self conscious..

The full series will follow after the exhibition on the 7th of June..


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Pigment.. Jasper Knight... Part2

I met Jasper Knight about six weeks ago, before he jetted off to Japan, he's a easy going kind of chap and I look forward to when I shoot his portrait for my series.. Archibald winner Knight's style is by far the most diverse of the Pigment series to date, his bold use of bright pop art colours, his trade mark.. And this is where I wanted to concentrate on..

He had thrown out a couple of paintings, which I rescued from the rubbish bin, though torn up I chose to focus on these pieces for his section..

His colour palette is throughout all he throws out, blacks, bright yellow, royal blue and reds..

I has shot Jasper's series a few weeks back, but I wanted to shoot more images and in a different approach and upload these as his final images for the series, as I felt it was a better representation of him and his work..

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Pokemon2

Just thought I'd upload another of the 'Madonna with Child' series.. As it's not very often you managed to get an adult in front of the camera wearing a Pokemon outfit..


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Pokemon. Madonna with Child...

Brendan Maclean, a Pokemon suit, my 3 month old daughter Olive and a lukewarm idea...

= Pokemon, 'Madonna with Child'..


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