Commissions

Official photographer, 2018

Vivid turns the harbour into a light festival every winter, and it runs for weeks, at night, in the cold, in a crowd. Nothing holds still. The buildings change colour every few seconds, so the exposure you metered for is wrong by the time it is made, and there are several thousand people between the camera and whatever you're trying to photograph.

Being handed the official role on a festival that size isn't something that comes round twice, and I know it. I was really proud of what came out of it.

City Lights, Sydney Harbour — City Lights

Campaign

Again, I was very proud for my work to be used to sell the very cameras I shoot on. Nikon ran four of my photographs in their I AM campaign, full page, with my name printed on every one of them. There's something pleasingly circular about it: the pictures came out of those cameras, then went back into the world to sell them.

Nikon I AM HOME advertisement — I AM HOME

Nikon I AM UNSTOPPABLE advertisement — I AM UNSTOPPABLE

Nikon I AM READY advertisement — I AM READY

Nikon I AM IN PARADISE advertisement — I AM IN PARADISE

Campaign

In July 2019 Citroën commissioned a photograph of a classic DS parked under the Harbour Bridge, part of the celebrations for Sydney's Bastille Day Festival. The DS was Jacques Chirac's favourite car, apparently, which is a lovely piece of trivia to be handed along with a brief. I loved being a part of it: two icons in one frame, and only one of them was built in Paris.

A classic Citroen DS beneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge, photographed by Richard Hirst — The DS, Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Corporate works

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Tourism Australia, NSW Tourism, UBS and LinkedIn have all commissioned work. There's also work at the Park Hyatt Sydney, in the lobbies at St Vincent's Hospital, at Sydney Airport, and with the Prince of Wales Hospital Foundation. I think deeply about what goes into these spaces. If you're sitting in a waiting room for three hours, on the worst morning of your year, a photograph of an ocean pool at dawn is doing more work than that same print will ever do in a boardroom.

If you're specifying art for a space, tell me the building, roughly how many walls and when you need it. If you have plans or photographs of the room, send those too. You'll get a selection and a price back, not a brochure.

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