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Last Friday night, I went down to a car wash with Sam Routledge and Dylan Sheridan to take some promotional images for their new work “Crush”, which will premiere at the Junction Arts Festival in Launceston this September.

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Some event shots from MCA Artbar curated by Karen Therese, last friday. Really love the effect of seeing parkour dancers from Team 9 Lives frozen, floating in the air.

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Documentation of Bonita Bub's exhibition Prototypes.

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Continuing my tradition of photographing the Australian receptions of weddings that actually happen overseas, last month I shot a small ceremony for 20 people at Lavender Bay, Milson's Point, where my beautiful French friend Claire married her equally beautiful and equally French partner Jef. We then all caught a ferry and a bus to Balmain and gorged ourselves on a delicious 10-course dinner and wine.

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My first exhibition is opening next Thursday (7th August) at Gaffa Gallery in Sydney CBD. On until Tuesday, 19th of August.

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Articulated Intersect RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

Dark MOFO Festival 2014, Hobart, Tasmania 

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Documentation of a few scenes from a first stage creative development of "In Difference"- a new dance work by choreographer Craig Bary. With Kristina Chan, Timothy Ohl, Joshua Thomson and Craig himself. Shot at NAISDA.

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Documentation of Malcolm Whittaker's show Jumping The Shark Fantastic, recently on at the Campbelltown Arts Centre.

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A few images from the recent showing by Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra at the conclusion of their Performance Space residency at iO Myers Studio, UNSW

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Publicity images for BrightHearts, a new interactive app by electronic artist/designer George Khut.

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Stills of a NIDA Open production of Sarah Kane's "4.48 Psychosis" in April 2014

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Promotional photos for James Dalton's upcoming production of Rob Hayes' play "Awkward Conversations With Animals I've Fucked", on at Bondi Feast 2014 and the Melbourne Fringe later in the year. 

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some recent photos of my left hand holding things

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Production stills of a recent graduate work for Actors Centre Australia. 

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“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation on its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance? If you can look across the distance without wanting to close it up, if you can own your longing in the same way that you own the beauty of that blue that can never be possessed? For something of this longing will, like the blue of distance, only be relocated, not assuaged, by acquisition and arrival, just as the mountains cease to be blue when you arrive among them and the blue instead tints the next beyond. Somewhere in this is the mystery of why tragedies are more beautiful than comedies and why we take a huge pleasure in the sadness of certain songs and stories. Something is always far away.”

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Rebecca Solnit, ”A Field Guide to Getting Lost”

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my photos that were published in Malcolm Whittaker's Little Book of Ignorance as part of his Ignoramus Anonymous project.

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first two photos by me, last one of me by lucien (iamlucien.wordpress.com)

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These are all gifs but sometimes tumblr doesn't want to play them.

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the afternoon sun has been really nice in the past couple of weeks