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INSIDE VOL 001 6 FEATURE: ANNA DELANY A display of work by Anna Delani, a black and white, street and potrature photographer based out of New York City, America.

17 REVIEW: BEST IN THE BUSINESS A review of the most widely used point and shoot cameras in the business. Leica-M, Fuji X100t, Lumix-L and the Sony A7

23 INTERVIEW: ASHLEY SUTTON DAVIS An interview with an up and coming photographer based out of Melbourne, Australia. We ask Ashley about how he got into photography and if he has any advice for other young photographers.

32 ARTICLE: IGNORE EVERYBODY ELSE An article from online blogger and street photographer Erik Kim. Giving an insite into finding your own style and not being too influenced by others.

36 FEATURE: ALEX WEBB A display of work by Alex Webb, featuting work from his South American adventure from the early 2000â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

FEATURE

ANNA DELANY

New Zealand/New York-based Anna Delany documents gritty street life and urban decay architecturally and in portraits. Anna may be one of the most successful street photographers in terms of her ability to capture facial emotion in a split second.

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REVIEW

BEST IN THE BUSINESS

A review of the most widely used point and shoot cameras in the business. Leica-M, Fuji X100t, Lumix-L and the Sony A7

Leica Q $6,999.00 A no compromise compact, the Leica Q (Typ 116) Digital Camera wields a full-frame 24.2-megapixel CMOS sensor within its exceptionally portable, and beautiful, body. Leveraging the power of the Leica Maestro II series image processor, high-resolution, low-noise imaging is possible at sensitivities up to ISO 50,000 and at a continuous rate of 10 fps.

Fujifilm X100T $1,698.00 The X100T Digital Camera from Fujifilm continues their position of pairing contemporary aspects of imaging technology with well-respected themes from iconic cameras. Utilizing their proprietary sensor design, this rangefinder-styled camera features an APS-C-sized 16.3MP X-Trans CMOS II sensor to realize the utmost in image clarity and sharpness due to the randomized pixel array that eschews the conventional optical low-pass filter.

Panasonic DMC-LX100 $1,139.00 The black Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LX100 Digital Camera is an advanced Four Thirds format point-and-shoot with manual controls designed to enable and inspire creativity. It features a large multi-aspect 4/3â&#x20AC;? type MOS sensor to produce 12.8MP still images (4:3) and 4K Ultra HD video at 24 fps. You also have the ability to extract high-resolution 8MP images from the 4K video, letting you capture entire scenes without missing a shot

Sony A7 MK II $2,598.00 Sony has taken their line of full-frame cameras to the next level with the Alpha a7II Mirrorless Digital Camera, which features 5-axis SteadyShot INSIDE image stabilization with 4.5 stops of compensation for pitch, yaw, horizontal shift, vertical shift, and roll. Operation of the 24.3-megapixel series has been streamlined with a redesigned grip, shutter release button, and customizable controls. The a7II also features a moistureand dust-resistant design with a magnesium alloy body and a more robust lens mount.

INTERVIEW

ASHLEY SUTTON DAVIS

An interview with an up and coming photographer based out of Melbourne, Australia. We ask Ashley about how he got into photography and if he has any advice for other young photographers.

Describe your path to becoming a photographer. I grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and then went to Victoria University. I was interested in social work, but my main focus was playing professional basketball. I had played basketball my whole life and received a partial scholarship for it. When did you decide to stop pursuing basketball professionally? Trying to play professional basketball is such a hard thing to do. I was playing Division III basketball, so I wasn’t at a super high level. Once I started trying out and seeing other athletes from around the world who had been trying to play professionally for years, I thought, “Oh, shit.” I tried out for the Auckland Representitive team, an A league team, and thought about getting an agent or trying to play overseas and move up from there, but it all fell apart. It was a lot to think about because I was the first person in my family to go to University. I liked social work and working with kids, but I had always imagined myself playing basketball. Basketball had been such a huge part of my life that it left a void once I stopped pursuing it professionally. That’s when I picked up a camera. I was just trying to find something to do with my time Was there an “Aha!” moment when you realized you could or wanted to seriously pursue photography? With basketball, I was married to a process: I worked out, traveled, went to the gym all the time, and played a game, which was like a performance piece. I was so used to being busy all the time and photography went hand-in-hand with that lifestyle. Once I was in Melbourne, I started meeting more creatives and people with jobs that I didn’t even know existed. I thought, “Oh, shit! People are making a living doing this?” That’s when I started taking photography more seriously and realized that it could be more than a hobby.

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After finishing University and moving to Melbourne, Australia, I got a job at fab.com. I was working in their photo studio, and I knew I wanted to take photography more seriously because it started to feel like there was something good happening. That’s when I decided I’d stay in Melbourne. I thought I’d stick with social work, but once I got into photography I realized that I could use my foundation in social work within photography, and that became appealing to me. You develop all of your own film and are sometimes backlogged several months. Is there a reason you choose to do it all yourself? Yeah. Part of it is because the process of shooting analog and looking back through old contact sheets is like reliving the moment the photo was taken in. It’s not like a digital camera, where you have an image right there. Spending a little bit more time means that it’s easier for me to select compelling images. For instance, if I shoot a roll today, develop it, and look at the images right away, then I’ll think, “All these images look great,” when most of them don’t actually look good. I try to be hard on myself while I’m editing because I shoot a lot, and if I don’t edit the work properly, then the quality and voice of it gets lost. I’m interested in so much when I’m shooting because Melbourne is so stimulating. This city is full of different cultures and languages, the unique ways people look and dress, structures, transportation, street life. I think about so much, and that’s how I shoot; I don’t count anything out. But when I go back and edit I try to narrow my focus. I ask myself, “Am I going to curate a show or a book, or am I trying to tell a specific story?” Once I decide on my focus, I look at my images with that in mind.

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I might think about that focus when I’m shooting if I’m working on a specific project, but in the day-to-day I shoot whatever catches my eye. As a photographer, I’ve dedicated myself to noticing what everybody else is missing. I show people what the world actually looks like. Street photography is so special because it’s about capturing everyday moments. It’s not produced. It’s not like I’m creating movie scenes or anything—I’m literally out reacting to the world. There is so much importance to that, and I enjoy taking pictures that way. What advice would you give to a young person starting out? Shoot and have fun. That’s how I started. I wasn’t always doing this—it took time to evolve. I was having fun and eventually started doing what I consider to be “real” work. If you can’t have fun, then you won’t ever have what it takes to put in the work. Sometimes people ask me how many hours I work each day, but I believe that if you truly love what you’re doing, then you’re not going to be counting hours. There are times when I spend all day shooting, and sometimes I pull all-nighters printing in the darkroom. I never think about counting the hours I shoot or counting down the hours until I can end—I just do it because I love it. I tell people to love what they do and it’ll figure itself out.interview close Interviewed by Zeak Kelly

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ARTICLE

IGNORE EVERYBODY ELSE

An article from online blogger and street photographer Erik Kim. Giving an insite into finding your own style and not being too influenced by others.

I think one of the most difficult things in the modern world is to ignore what everyone else is doing, and focus on what you are truly interested and passionate about. We are drowning in a sea of blogs, news, people telling us what we “should” be doing, rather than what we want to be doing. I’m a victim of this. When I started blogging, I read so many different sites on “how” to blog– blindly listening to others tips and tricks on how to get more page traffic, how to get more followers, and how to become more “popular”. I made the classic mistake of trying to form some sort of concept of “success” that was mediated through the opinion of others. Every true creative person and genius is a bit crazy. I think the thing I have learned from studying the lives of others who changed the world is this– they were all ostracized by society in one way or another, they ruffled feathers, and all said “f*ck you” to the status quo. In today’s creative world, we are all trying to find our own unique vision. The problem is that we look outside of ourselves in terms of what other photographers are doing, rather than trying to cultivate our own gardens. Cultivate your own thoughts Easier said than done, right? I feel some of the most innovative thinkers needed to become recluses and shut themselves out from the outside world, to cultivate their own original thinking. For example, Bob Dylan was a wildly successful musician, but when he got fed up with his “old stuff” he fell off the map for at while, cultivating his new ideas, and when he re-emerged playing with an electric guitar, he alienated a lot of his old fans. But he ignored what others thought of him and his new work, and he constantly pushed himself forward to find his own voice. As Dylan said: “If you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.” I think there is a great benefit in finding all of this inspiration on the Internet, social media, and other artists. No artist has a truly “original” idea anymore; it is all borrowed from other sources. However at the same time, the problem is when we spend too much time looking at the work of others, rather than looking into our own artistic souls. You have an inner genius You have an inner genius, an inner wisdom, and a unique way of seeing the world. As a photographer you mediate reality through your own eyes and lens– what unique contribution do you have to share with the rest of the world?

Shut yourself off from the world Close the floodgates of social media and the Internet, and retire into yourself for a bit. The Internet is constantly hungry for information, and mostly to sell you more advertisements. Even nowadays although I love how Instagram and Facebook have empowered millions of photographers and creatives, ultimately they are trying to sell you advertisements. It is a business after all, and there is no such thing as a “free lunch” anymore. Like they say, if the service you are using is free, you are the product. Not only that, but I often get anxiety and frustration when I spend too much time on social media, because I am constantly comparing myself to others. I bemoan the fact that I don’t have as many followers as the other photographer, how I am not winning awards, or publishing amazing books. But the only ruler you should measure yourself against is yourself. Really, ignore everyone else– seek self satisfaction and self contentment from within. If you make photos that you are happy and proud about, why do you care what others think about your work? If you are indeed the most important person in your life, shouldn’t you care more about your own opinion of your own work, than the opinion of a stranger on the Internet? No matter how rich, powerful, or famous you are– there will always be someone “better” than you. If there is anything I have learned about celebrity culture it is this; they are the most jealous, insecure, and unpredictable human beings out there. They are the most wretched– can you imagine a life where you can’t even go to the grocery store without being mobbed by paparazzi? I also think the big problem is once you become a famous photographer, the higher you go up, the higher you fall. For example, being a Magnum photographer is probably the most stressful thing. If you make any photo that is not the most amazing image, you will be negatively criticized by others. And if you do make an amazing photograph, nobody really says anything because that is what they expect from you. Even me– I greatly admire the work of Magnum photographers yet am constantly disappointed by the work of some of the greats. This is because I have an unrealistic expectation of them and their work– I forget that they too are normal human beings, like you and me. Whose opinion matters most? Let’s do a thought experiment: let’s say you upload a photo online that you aren’t that crazy about, but you get 1,000+ likes, and you had all the famous photography bloggers writing that you’re the best thing since sliced bread. Would that bring you a deep sense of happiness?

Now let’s say that you make a photo that you are very happy and proud of, and you upload it online and you only get 5 likes. Would that cause you to like your own photo less? Would you think that others were idiots, or that you were an idiot? Would you feel upset, depressed, or frustrated? This is the constant battle were fighting with when we put our own opinion of ourselves and our own work at the mercy of others. We pawn our freedom, and our own self-assessment of ourselves. But why be the slave of the opinion of others? We all want acceptance and we want to feel part of a community. We don’t want to be looked at as idiots. We want to feel respected, loved, and cared for. But even if you were the #1 most popular photographer in the world, but wasn’t happy with your own photos, would you truly be happy? Take “just because” photos Do you ever take a photo “just because?” Do you take certain photos that you know that nobody else will see but yourself? Do you make certain photos that you know aren’t great photos, but they still bring you some sort of self satisfaction? I feel this is photography in its purest form. Untainted, when you are like a child picking up the camera for a first time. I think this is the ideal we all should strive for. To make photos to truly please ourselves, to ignore the opinions of others, and make our own opinion of ourselves paramount. Take a break Take a break from uploading photos. Take a break from checking social media when you’re on the bus, when you’re eating, when you’re waiting in line, and especially when you’re on the toilet. Detox from social media a bit– see how it makes you feel. Personally I am addicted to coffee; if I don’t have a coffee the moment I wake up, I feel like shit. But every once in a while, I will take a few days and not drink any caffeine at all. The withdrawal symptoms are horrible, but when I do begin to drink coffee again, I appreciate it so much more. Ultimately social media and the Internet is not “bad”– but I think that taking a break and “fasting” will help purge our system, and when we break our fast, we appreciate it so much more. And not only that, but you find out how social media can also be toxic in too large doses (as coffee is toxic if you drink too much of it). Stop, take a breath, enjoy life, and capture the moments which are meaningful to you.

FEATURE

ALEX WEBB Alex Webb became interested in photography during his high school years and attended the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, in 1972. He majored in history and literature at Harvard University, at the same time studying photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. In 1974 he began working as a professional photojournalist and he joined Magnum Photos as an associate member in 1976. During the mid-1970s Webb photographed in the American south, documenting small-town life in black and white. He also began working in the Caribbean and Mexico. In 1978 he started to photograph in color, as he has continued to do. He has published seven photography books, including Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds: Photographs from the Tropics, Under A Grudging Sun, Crossings, the limited edition artist book Dislocations and Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names. Webb received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in 1986, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1998 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. He won the Leopold Godowsky Color Photography Award in 1988, the Leica Medal of Excellence in 2000 and the David Octavius Hill Award in 2002. His photographs have been the subject of articles in Art in America and Modern Photography. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, in museums including the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Vinta S-Seris Travel Pack $340 Introducing VINTA’s first backpack the S-Series is a necessity for every traveler & photographer. The compact and clean design can accommodate for a wide range of uses. Whether you are climbing up a mountain or exploring a new city. Avaliable late October

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Lekker Single Speed 2nd Gen $515 The Matt White edition has been brought over from our Europe collection. A popular color range which can be seen in the streets of London, Amsterdam and Barcelona, where the Matt White edition is exclusively sold. Now available on Australian soil we have added the Matt White edition to the new Amsterdam Fixie Bike Style Range in a single speed setup. The new TIG welded aluminum frame and fork fit this new high quality finish perfectly and is a LEKKER Bikes exclusive. We’ve also added the CNC Machined and widely acclaimed Flip-Flop hub, which can be ridden in a fixed or a non-fixed setup.

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Bose SoundTrue II $219 Around-ear headphones that focus your music inward while proclaiming your style to the world. They will bring your music to life with depth and clarity that others don’t deliver. Redesigned with a slimmer profile and fresh, new colours. Featuring a padded headband and memory foam to cushion for your ears, they’re so light you just might forget you’re wearing them.

Ray Ban Wayferer 55 $210 The new Wayfarer® is an updated version of the original in size 55mm, with that Hollywood red carpet look. Using the same shape and style introduced in the ‘60s, Ray-Ban has added new color combinations sure to get you noticed. The black frame is paired with green, polarized lenses

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Belkin Portable Power Bank $85 The Power RockStar 6600 combines magnetized cable storage with a powerful 6600 mAh battery to make it even easier to stay charged on the go. Holding your specially designed Lightning or Micro-USB cable securely in transit, the Power RockStar means you’ll never be without a cable to charge your device.

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Lucky Black Wrist Strap

Keep Cup Brew Series

$68

$32 ea

This strap is the same size as our Slim 30 neck/shoulder strap so it is 30mm wide. This is perfect to be comfortable around your wrist and strong enough for pro sized cameras and lenses. It connects to one camera strap point by 10mm webbing with an adjustable slide buckle.

The KeepCup Brew Limited Edition cork is the perfect vessel to enjoy any beverage.

The leather strap threads through its own metal D ring allowing you to quickly tighten or loosen the strap around your wrist.

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The cork used in our bands is sourced sustainably from the ancient cork oak forests of Portugal and manufactured from the recycled waste material from the wine industry. The cork material itself has unmatched environmental credentials. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s light, biodegradable, antibacterial and is an incredible insulator with its superior thermal qualities. Furthermore, it also has great aesthetic qualities and is lovely to feel and hold. Over time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patina will tell the story of your use. Being a natural product, cork is delicate. We urge users to look after it like a dear friend. For best results, do not remove the band from the cup and wash gently by hand.