Fashion in the Sand Dunes of Cronulla

What a lucky day for a 'Desert Dunes' fashion shoot, well it was a photo shoot for Love & luck so I suppose thats how it has to be! We had full sun from behind on the white sand with strong clouds in front of us on the horizon allowing for a lovely dramatic sky. Luck had not initially been on our side though as we had intended shooting this series of handbags, the 'Persia' range a week or so earlier but it had been too wet! We did not want a wet desert we wanted a dry dry 'lost in the desert' theme and I think you will agree it was worth the wait.

Although I was aware of the dunes down at Kurnell and Cronulla I had never shot there myself. So, a week before (we were going to shoot) we did a technical scout to find the perfect spots, check the light make sure everything would be just right on the day. The last shot on this page is really just a reminder shot I took on the day for a future shoot. There are no fences in the desert, or are there?  Click on the horizontal shots to view larger.













You can see the Lawless shoot here, and the Skull and Bones shoot here. BTS Video can be seen Here Or the whole lot on my website HERE

Model,
Rochelle Fox

H&MU,
Emily Hayward

Styling by Love & Luck.

Contact Kent to book your Fashion Campaign, Sydney 0433 796 863.

Marina - Studio Model Test

This was my last Model Test for 2010 shot between Christmas and New Years. I met Marina a few weeks ago at a friends, she hails from NYC & has been working in finance there but wants to give modelling another go, as she had done in her mid teens. Although now living in NY she is originally from Latvia of Russian background, ah that great Slavic bone structure! We put together a few looks, simple/casual to start off and then something a bit more sophisticated. I also had the new fabric background to work with. I have been after a coarse weave, textured background for a while and now we have have one!







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I asked our Make Up artist Yenn to 'Go Crazy' for the final shots and we (yes I did have some input too) came up with a bold asymmetric look for the eyes which I really love. Thanks Yenn. 2010 was a blast & I am looking forward to making lots a great new work in 2011. Happy New Year everyone.

PS click the second last shot to view it larger...

Photography, Kent Johnson
Model, Marina S
Hair & Make-Up, Yenn Xin
Assistant, Harry Perlich

My Biggest Project in 2010 - SNO Artists Portrait Exhibition.

Was I think without a doubt my Solo Show SNAP at SNO in May this year. In a nutshell (my artist statement is below) SNAP was 40 large format Photographic Portraits of local and international artists taken at their openings over the previous four or so years. All the images were reprocessed from the original files for the show to make sure of the consistency of the prints which were done by the wonderful people at Photoking in Randwick.

The show (the first solo at SNO & show of objective work) was also aligned with the Head On Photo Festival and was very well attended. Thanks to everyone at SNO for their assistance with the exhibition & Billy Gruner for the title, Head On; and my parents for their much appreciated support. And of course thanks to everyone who made the trek to SNO for the exhibition, it would not have been such a wonderful time without everyone coming along.

I am not sure as to why it took me so long to blog about the show other than it has been a wonderfully busy year for my photography! I have put up a few shots from the show, the opening and some instillation shots below, all the Portraits from the exhibition can be seen HERE on Flickr.


Sophia Egarchos


Billy Gruner


Lars Breuer


John Adair


P.J. Hickman









Continuing the Artist portraits up to 2015 Here!

SNAP at SNO

Artist Statement

Every artist regardless of their experience has a sense of anticipation surrounding the opening of their exhibition. SNAP the portrait exhibition of artists taken at their openings at SNO reflects this instant, that moment when the artist is with their art, themselves and a photographer looking at both. The portraits which are 'set up' during the openings are typically made in about 60 seconds.

My the earliest shot in the show is the silhouette series of Ruark Lewis in conversation taken at the closing show for the space SNO occupied immediately before moving to the Marrickville Road space in February 2006. The first portraits at the new gallery space at 175 Marrickville Rd were of Jan van der Ploeg and Helen Smith SNO 15, April 1 2006 with the collaborative work 'Magic Black, Baby Blue, Baby Doll 2006'.

Over the past four plus years Kent has managed to photograph more than 40 Artists at their SNO openings. SNAP showcases the best-of-the best of the SNO Portraits.

From THE SNO website
Kent Johnson

SNAP

An exhibition of artist portraits taken at SNO openings since 2005. SNAP is a combined project with SNO and Australian Centre for Photography's Head On Photo Festival at galleries in and around Sydney.

SNO
Head On

Love & Luck, Gothic Fashion; Photographing Designer Handbags on Location.

My second of three photo shoots for Love & Luck. Here I photograph the Gothic inspired Skull & Bones range of handbags and accessories in an ancient cemetery on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean; with two beautiful models wearing black lace masks and matching gloves, the scene is set for a high-fashion drama!

Sydney has a lot of great locations to shoot at & I shot two well know locations for my first time working on the L&L campaigns. This location is of course that well known and much loved cemetery on Sydney's rugged coastline..

Photographed on location in Sydney by Kent Johnson. www.kentjohnsonphotography.com.au/

Models, Rochelle Fox and Michelle McNamee

H&MU, Emily Hayward

Assistant, Harry Perlich

BTS Video can be seen Here.

Lawless, Unauthorised - Love & Luck Photographers Edit.

I have to say I went a little (just a little) crazy on the Love & Luck shoot, particularly during the studio session. Although we were lighting the shoot with strobe it was impossible to ignore just how cool the daylight was that was falling all soft and diffused on the set. These are a few of the shots I cranked off with flash turned off! I did take the time to do a custom white balance, these pictures were all shot (the daylight shots) quite quickly.









Models,
Rochelle Fox
Michelle McNamee

H&MU,
Emily Hayward

Assistant,
Harry Perlich

View the whole fashion branding shoot here.

Love & Luck - Behind the Scenes...

OMG! Well you know the world as you know it has changed forever when just a couple of weeks after your first BTS video appears, (and you didn't notice they were making it) your very next BTS video is there for all the world to see. We have been shooting the first Love & Luck campaign which has gone very very well (shots coming next week) and as you do... L&L have shot this BTS Video entirely on their iPhone. Yep its a brave new world where all your little tricks of the trade will be revealed. I even go Strobist on this one, ha! So check the video out, check the action over our three shoots and, you can check out more L&L on their new blog Here.



L&L will have there spanking new website up next week too so I will be posting shots from the ranges along with the link so don't forget to pop back then.

And of course, thanks to everyone involved, what a great team!

Fashion Editorial Collabo w/- Shine By Three

Styling by Margaret Zhang.
Hair & MU by Maria Bravo
Model, Zoe S from Viviens

Margaret is running the Black and White version of the shoot over on her Shine By Three blog and has all the fashion details there too. And of course you can see Margaret & Katie's BTS video linked in on my previous post.

Thanks to everyone for working so well and putting together a great shoot.