Whilst capturing the dreamy people and place of Falls Festival Lorne I also sneakily organised a couple of artist portraits with a few of my favourite artists across the four days. Many of the artists captured are lovely Brisbane people, some I know personally, and all spectacular individuals. A couple of other artists - such as Stella Donnelly and Julia Jacklin - I fan girled real bad backstage until I built up enough confidence to have a chat with them and ask for their portrait.

I'm quite proud of this collection of photos particularly for the fact that at least half are wonderfully talented women in the music industry! I've attempted to make it a day by day order of the portraits, however I've also mixed in a couple of live music photos captured on two different Hasselblad cameras. Some of the Hasselblad 500cm photos (the square ones) have big old light leaks on them, which has now been fixed, but they look so pretty still so I've kept them included.

Big thank you to fellow photographer Charlie Hardy for allowing to borrow his Hasselblad X-Pan for a day. Now I need one in my life...

Digital photos captured with a Canon 5Dmkiii and most likely a Sigma 50mm f1.4.

Square film photos captured with a Hasselblad 500cm and 80mm f2.8. Landscape film photos captured with a Hasselblad X-Pan and 45mm f4. Film used was Kodak Portra 400 for all 35mm photos, and a mix of Kodak Portra 400 and Cinestill 800T for 120 film.

Confidence Man

Daryl Braithwaite

The Jungle Giants

Bad//Dreems

Stella Donnelly

Jungle

Julia Jacklin

DZ Deathrays

with a Dunie in the last photo

West Thebarton

Ziggy Ramo

Methyl Ethel

with Stella Donnelly filling in

Hatchie

Fleet Foxes

The Creases

Liam Gallagher

I found out I was shooting Falls in Lorne about a month before the festival. So, just like the rest of my and my lovely partners life, everything to do with this festival was a frantic rush….

From bunking on my cousins sofa last minute (my partner and I thought we were driving to Lorne the day we landed in Melbourne, but that wasn’t the case), to trekking a 30kg of suitcases through the city, and jumping from tram to tram to train to bus to bus, and finally to being caught in traffic to Lorne for 6 plus hours. When we FINALLY made it to Falls Festival we unpacked our super dorky oversized suitcase - which was filled with a whole bloody tent, wool blankets, sheets, blowup mattress, camping essentials, etc - we could get settled in for a very special next four days.

Have a scroll through my collection of photos from the four days I captured Falls Festival; the gorgeous people, the breathtaking place, and the spectacular artists!