I was having the worst day on Saturday. My SLR had a concussion and I lost my house in a disgusting minor flood. So I bounced from the cesspool to the super cool BlowUp Bombay to help out. Organised by Blind Boys, it was a street exhibition of photographs – around 600 I think taped to walls and woven mats hanging between trees and even within a desolate, decrepit house. There were many great submissions – some incredible photoessays, some so bad that they were kinda good. Half the fun was in the set up though I reckon so I’m glad I didn’t miss out on that. An artist and musician played an audio visual set – one played some great tunes while the other painted on canvas. There were some interesting themes and series – Life in Kashmir, bicycles, my relationship with my girlfriend, photos from 100 days of travel, an interpretation of loneliness in Bombay. I met five hundred amazing photographers or maybe a dozen or so. It was quite awesome and after Melbourne, it’s so lovely to see my new city’s street art culture flourish. Oh and a public dissemination model means people got to take the prints they liked home, leaving no trace of the event. Big ups to the cute kids who helped us set up – they were indispensable. Next up, BlowUp Pune.
This kid decided to be a walking photo installation for a while.
Teaching the kids origami.
Khush painted a mural.
Please excuse the hideous Blackberry pictures. They’re all I’ve got.
Neville, a fantastic photographer, my oldest friend and first mentor and myself have been taking to the streets at night with our 50 mm arsenal, his with a very low 1.4 F-stop, mine not as fancy. Bastard. We’re shooting a series of Bandra’s old Portuguese fishing villages and started with Chuim Village earlier this week. Last night we shot the areas around Chapel and Varoda Rd. It’s nice, because although we’re often shooting the same subjects, Neville loves geometry and shadows while I seek out pretty things – like shrines and furry animals. Many of the street lights weren’t working though, but since I’m head over heels about the architecture in the villages, I’ll do a Bandra by day in time. Here are some of our pictures.
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Diptych by Neville
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I love Wayne Tippetts’ photography blog. As far as street style blogs go, I shan’t be bothered with ones that feature only middle aged men in bespoke Italian suits with pocket squares. Pssh. Wayne’s on the other hand is full of lovely, light, creative styling and good looking guys and girls. And he’s a very talented photographer.
At first, I was pretty apprehensive asking people if I could take their photograph in Tokyo so mostly I didn’t and didn’t get to. Frustrated, I finally asked this sexy hairdresser if I could take his photo and he obliged. Thus, I began to ask more. Japanese guys cuff their trousers like nobody else. I photographed way more men than women. These weren’t all on Takeshita St, but I was. My favourite store in the area was Comme Des Garçons (Pretty sure I saw Rei Kawakubo!!!!!!), followed by the cute Mercibeaucoup, the architectural genius that is Prada Aoyama, the colourful Takashi Murakami designed Louis Vuitton in Omotesando. In Ginza, my favourite hands down was Lanvin.
If I could dress like Paul Bui or Hanneli Mustaparta sometime soon, that would be nice. I don’t even care that Paul is a man. They exemplify sexy cold weather style. Maybe I can rock some black this winter, instead of [direct quote] ‘that absolute shit you wear’, ’quirkiness way of mismatching outfits’, ’cool weird nonsense’, and my favourite, ‘I hope you get married to a rich man so you can finally co-ordinate your clothes’. People are hilarious. I would probably just buy heaps of expensive ugly stuff. Oh and what I’m missing out on winter? So sad. Oh well.
Photo cred: Street Peeper
Little People, is a tiny street art project where artist Slinkachu leaves little handpainted people all over London to fend for themselves, and photographs them as he last sees them. This pint sized project made me gasp in delight. Why is anything miniature always so much better than anything lifesized? Slinkachu creates installations of his little people doing wonderful things, ordinary, illegal, even violent things. The project has been going on since August 2006, has received much press, there’s even a book now and you should go through the archives. Enjoy.
Slinkachu also has a project called Inner city snail and the last image is a beauty from there.
I’m no stranger to complimenting unique, stylish strangers on their outfits but I’ve generally only photographed people I’ve built a rapport with. Yesterday I had my first true street fashion blog photographer moment when Cc walked past us on Swanston St. We literally dropped our jaws and ran after her so I could take her picture.
Cc’s mum made this jacket and the finish was immaculate. The arm and leg accessories were handcrafted by Cc herself and she owned that look.
Look at the little details. I have to admit I was a little awestruck.
