Pip Edwards’ top 15 summer looks on Instagram
If there’s one Bondi local that knows how to rock a killer summer look, it’s super stylist Pip Edwards. With her sun-kissed balayage, year-round tan and effortless style, she’s the poster girl for fashiony beach style. What we love about Pip is that she’s just at home in a pair of hi-tops on a BMX as she ...
My Greek Island Home
On the other side of the world, there’s another Australian living an island life. In search of creative inspiration, photographer Claire Lloyd relocated to the Greek island of Lesvos and hasn’t looked back. Late last year she published her new book My Greek Island Home – a beautiful collection of photography and words that takes us ...
Our 10 favourite Instagrammers
We can’t get enough of Instagram and it’s all thanks to these guys. From professional surfers and underwater photographers, to swimwear labels and fashion icons, we show you who to follow for your daily dose of island life. 1. Alana Blanchard @alanarblanchard Followers: 415k Occupation: Professional Surfer Based: Kauai, Hawaii The glamour girl of the ...
Lara Bingle’s top 10 summer looks on Instagram
One of our favourite people to follow on Instagram is Lara Bingle. When she’s not hanging around Bondi, you’ll find her sunning herself on a beach in Mexico or surfing with her posse in Byron Bay. Whatever she’s doing, you can be guaranteed she’s doing it in style. A big supporter of Australian fashion, Lara ...
This River Life
Sydney-based artist Andrew Mamo has turned his daily ferry commute into a cool photography project. Using nothing but his iPhone4, Andrew captures life on Sydney’s Parramatta River and shares it through Instagram. Harbour sunsets, sunken anchors and summery palms feature heavily throughout his Instagram feed, giving us a unique look at river-focused culture and the ...
Hamilton Island’s Instameet Weekend
In November last year while we were on vacay in Asia, another group of travellers were part of something special. On the edge of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Hamilton Island launched ‘The Ultimate Instameet’ – a world-first gathering of Instagrammers who were chosen to spend a weekend photographing the island paradise and sharing ...
Shaun Freeman takes you to Paradisio
The guys I went to high school with sure are a talented crew – musicians, photographers, board shapers, artists and furniture designers, they’re all over the creative scene. Australian artist Shaun Freeman is one of them and he’s having a solo show titled ‘Paradisio’ that’s kicking off Friday the 1st of February at the Glass ...
Chambord know how to party
A few months ago we asked you to send in your best summer photo for the chance to win a cocktail party from Chambord. Sydney-based model Rachel Gill won for her great shot of Fiji, and her and her genetically-blessed friends partied the night away with a fabulous Chambord hosted party. It may have been ...
Walking Drawings
Who hasn’t drawn marks or doodles in the sand while at the beach using a stick or even their big toe? British artist Everton Wright, aka Evewright , has taken this basic human urge to make sense of our transient existence through mark-making and married it with sophisticated and age-old technologies, a personal vision and ...
Andrew Quilty at Semi-Permanent
Photography aficionados have a great opportunity to hear the award winning Australian Photographer Andrew Quilty speak about his career and work at the upcoming Semi-Permanent design conference in Brisbane on August 30. Quilty has a proven track record, having won both a World Press Photography award and inaugural Walkley Young Australian Photojournalist of the year ...
Politicians in bathing suits
On our way to the Gellért and Széchenyi baths in Budapest, we visited the Hungarian House of Photography to see an exhibition shot by one of their lifeguards more than 80 years ago. During the 1930’s in Hungary, a lifeguard wasn’t the bored person dressed in white at the side of the pool – a ...
Surf photography by Frothers
Frothers is a Sydney-based website run by a bunch of photographers who each share a common love of the ocean, sun and sand. Every morning they photograph our beautiful beaches, and in turn document a way of life. Images of local surfers charging and soft-sand runners running are captured in that golden hour before most ...
Sydney through the lens
Sydney’s Head On Photo Festival will soon be over, but there’s still plenty of great events to enjoy. With more than 200 events spread out across 100 venues, a smorgasbord of stunning photographs to suit any taste are on show. Two exhibitions that capture the essence of living in a city with beautiful beaches and ...
Luke Taaffe x Ryan Heywood
Ever wondered what would happen if you threw a collection of dark photographic seascapes onto some whitewash plywood boards and added a hand painted homage to beach and surf culture over the top? What about a bunch of beaten-up wetsuits sewn together to create a giant logo-covered patchwork doona? Well with photographer Ryan Heywood and ...
Vogue visits Zanzibar
Shot on the Island of Zanzibar in East Africa by Mario Testino for British Vogue, this colourful editorial has got us ready to do some serious colour blocking. The shoot features Estonian model Karmen Pedaru alongside Jourdan Dunn, but the real star is the breathtakingly exotic backdrop of this Tanzanian Island. Publication: Vogue UK, March 2011. ...
Hengki Koentjoro
Ironically, I bought this Hengki Koentjoro piece before I went to Indonesia, but I’ll tell ya the $90 FedEx bill was well worth it. Based in Jakarta, the work of this Indonesian photographer says it all, so I’ll let his pictures do the talking.
Trail Blazers by Mario Testino
I was sitting in the cigarette scented internet room at Loki Hostel in Cusco, recovering from a three-day trek to Machu Picchu that has left me too traumatised to attend spin class (only go downhill mountain biking in Peru if you have a death wish), when my stepdad emailed through this Mario Testino editorial featuring his homeland.
Vintage Kate Moss
Editorials don’t get much hotter than this vintage castaway shoot featuring the fabulous Kate Moss, so I’m going to make this brief. Shot back in 2002 for UK Vogue, photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott captured Miss Moss at what I think was the peak of her hotness. Faded colours and salvaged materials were combined ...
David Prichard Photography
When I went to pick up my tourist visa from the Brazilian Consulate, I was preparing for a confrontation of the bureaucratic kind, not of the arrestingly beautiful variety. But there in front of me was a collection of images titled ‘Strength and Beauty’ by Australian photographer David Prichard – images from the very country ...
