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December 2014 – John McRae Photography & Studio

Matthew Mitcham 2014 Portrait

The end of the year is fast approaching and I’m confronting last minute jobs to be done, absolutely before the end of the year.  Rationally, I know it’s just another day….but there’s this burning urge to finish certain tasks, leaving them in the year 2014, so that I may have a clean slate to start the New Year, a fresh.

One of those matters is the annual portrait of Matthew Mitcham.  I have been documenting Matthew for quite a few years now, almost 9.  Wow, how time flies!  At some point in the year I ask Matt to sit for a formal portrait for the purpose of adding a new image to the line up.

This portrait takes the form of a cropped head shot.  It is shot in a similar fashion each year, without being clinically precise in it’s recreation as I want to leave a small margin for variation and creative interpretation. So a few days before the New Year I am releasing the 2014 version of this series (pictured below).  For the whole series see the main web site under the tab, “Exhibition”.

 

 

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MMXIV, 2014, Pigment inkjet on cotton rag, 112cm x 78cm, Edition of 9 (2AP)

Boys will be boys!

Tuesday evening in Rozelle…..

Getting the lights set for the next photo shoot in the studio.

This time it’s 3 of the boys that form part of the regular entertainment at ARQ.   Little X and Ivy League are among them.

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I always enjoy these crazy shoots.  When they walk in, I’m never sure what they will end up looking like…what costume they devised this time round….will they need the wind machine again (some of them love using that bloody wind machine).

But we always come up with something good and I always have fun shooting for the latest poster and waiting to see what the talented Richard Hughes comes up with for the final poster.

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I wish someone would give me a new car!

Lucky Daly Cherry-Evans, the young Sea Eagles football star, received a brand new BMW-X5 as part of a new partnership between “Royale Limousines” and the “Sea Eagles”.

I was asked to capture the moment for Royale Limousines.

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I asked myself….“why don’t I get given a new car by someone?”  I was very pleased for the young footballer, who by all accounts, deserved such a reward for his on field prowess.  Daly was accompanied by his partner and 5 week old new addition to the family.

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