A portfolio of portrait-based highlights covering film, television, theatre, dance, and commercial work.

A new series of work exploring electrical light

Production / publicity stills for the web series 'Danger 5'. "Danger 5 is an Australian action comedy television series on SBS One which premiered on 27 February 2012. It is set in a bizarre 1960s interpretation of World War II and follows a group of five international spies on a mission to kill Adolf Hitler and thwart his plans of world domination. The pulp magazine-inspired series was created by Dario Russo and David Ashby.

An exploration of a remote cove as night falls

An Endless Loop (Heavy Oblivion) This exhibition extends Sam's recent photomedia investigation into electrical waste, showing highlights from her 'Short Circuit' body work alongside new work that takes a small but surprising deviation using 3D technology . 'Short Circuit' explores electrical waste, examining its form in a series of electrical typologies, its function in a series of site specific landscapes, and its hardware footprint in a series of timelapse moving image works. 'An Endless Loop' extends the artist's formal investigation into functional objects, this time examining them in a situation of suspended time and space. Using multiple cameras shooting simultaneously, the objects are photographed against resonant landscapes that highlight their derivative history. Sam is interested in challenging the 'remoteness' of the 2-dimensional image in this work, using lenticular imaging to reveal multiple perspectives. She wants to explore beyond the decisive moment, extend it in time and space, inspect it and find a broader 'truth'. A lenticular image denies a fixed viewpoint. 'An Endless Loop' is the artist's exploration of the life cycle of objects, and a curious investigation into form, function, space and time.

This series explores the curious landscape of the desert. I recently had the opportunity to travel to the Arabian desert and was struck by the perpetual anonymity of the dunes – ever-changing and unique in transience; a challenge to navigate. And amongst the shifting sands, poised to capture it's unique architecture, I was standing amongst a drift, buffeted by wind, and sand that was in transit to the next temporary place. I took some peculiar reassurance that my location in that place at that time would be coded into my images via metadata – a stamped date, time and GPS location that could map the site and help to make sense of it. Both meaningless and meaningful, this data provides another way of experiencing the place, reminding us that it exists, with it's particular qualities, in a very specific place and time on the planet, situated within a broader landscape that in turn has it's own data. The landscape images alone tell us something about the place – the temporary architecture of the dunes sculpted by the wind; the play of light along the undulating lines; the vastness of the dunes. But I wanted to address the location itself from a geographic and meteorological perspective, and reveal real data about the location. Having access to the metadata from the digital file allowed me to access reasonably accurate records about the conditions on the day each image was taken. This series indulges my curiosity about places, and acknowledges the various factors that contribute to a place: how it is situated; how and when it is revealed by daylight, or hidden in shadow by night, and what conditions it is has been exposed to that day. These factors impact on how the site was experienced at the moment of capture – and on reflection post capture.

Short Circuit is a photo-media investigation into our electrical consumption and the ‘trash and treasure’ culture of Western commoditisation. The exhibition examines the form and function of the ‘electrical artifact’ using a combination of photographic and moving image work. Working with discarded electrical waste found in suburban hard rubbish and local dumps, the exhibition extends the post industrial photographic typologies developed famously by Berndt and Hilla Becher, but in this case using electrical objects. These new typologies (arrangements of similar forms with overlapping characteristics in a grid) examine the forms of discarded appliances, arranging them in cabinets of electrical curiosities. The core typologies in the exhibition are supported by large images of single appliances presented as still lives of the objects ‘recycled’ as gilded Art Objects. This work presents the ‘trash to treasure’ ideology, as promoted in contemporary “re-use, re-cycle” approaches to more sustainable living. Moving-image time-lapse work play with the relationship between electrical dependency and the environmental impact of high consumption, with frozen appliances melting in contemporary landscapes.

The Headshot Laboratory is a specialisation in Headshot Photography for performing artists and professionals. Having done some amazing professional development in Dubai at Peter Hurley's (USA) Headshot intensive, I am currently a PH2PRO Protege, crafting my work to create the best headshot portraits in Adelaide.

A variety of portrait and promotional images shot for arts & entertainment professionals

Stills photography done on a variety of productions

These are images taken on a recent trip into the Arabian Desert near Dubai