Rio Hunuki - Hemopo

I caught up with Rio in the studio just before he headed to Womad to perform with Freddys. After chatting for an hour about our favourite documentaries, we though it was time to snap some crazy portraits. I know the first one has freaked him out!

JAZZ FESTIVAL '09

Friday's after Midnight Jam


Friday's after Midnight Jam


L.A.Mitchell


Eric Bibb


Melanie Pain

What an incredible Festival it was, my highlight of the 4 days was definitely Freddy's followed by the once in a lifetime after Midnight Jam session containing a few of the Freddy's boys, half of the Mingus Big Band from New York, Otis Taylor and a whole lot more. Amazing!

ONE LOVE PORTRAITS

These portraits were shot backstage at One Love. The Black Seeds were about to take the stage for a stunning performance, I thought it was the perfect time to pull out the old Mamiya medium format film camera and capture some portraits.

RYAN PREBBLE

Ryan Prebble was the first musician to be photographed for a new project I'm working on. I want to start documenting more of my favourite musos in the studio with no pressures of a commercial job.

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Enjoy! PAT

TYPESHED 11

For the Typeshed 11 symposium, I decided that people talking on stage wasn't going to get me any exciting images. So I decided to take my lighting kit down to the waterfront and capture the amazing speakers who were involved. This is four out of the twenty or so that I snapped.

THE GRAVY

This was a fun shoot! 'The Gravy' presenters, Warren Maxwell, Gabe McDonnell and Ross Liew got into character for the camera on this wet Wellington day at the Wellesley Club!

ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE

At the end of 2008, I caught up with the Electric Wire Hustle crew for a shoot in the studio. If anybody saw them at One Love, they will know that these guys rock! They are going to be huge, I was stoked they chose me to shoot their first collection of press shots. Fun times!