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Between Takes with Alexandra Agoston by Edward Triglone

Edition N°5 - Nostalgia Alexandra Agoston by Edward Triglone

Alexandra Agoston in front AND behind the lens for SIDE-NOTE Edition N°5, Nostalgia.

A Future Now Passed by Anna Pogossova & Sophie Fletcher

A Future Now Passed by Anna Pogossova & Sophie Fletcher

An unlikely assortment of household consumables, vivid in colour and varied in form, bring sentiments of what is past into a narrative of now.

Then and Now – A Fashion Retrospective by Daniel Nadel

Then and Now – A Fashion Retrospective by Daniel Nadel

Like all art, fashion is an ever evolving ever retrospective interaction between the past, present and future...

Perception of Self: Which You is True? by Jesse Lizotte

Perception of Self: Which You is True? by Jesse Lizotte

With the current cultural shift that is so accepting of gender fluidity, and the fashion industry continuing to blur the lines between mens and womenswear with entire 'ungendered' collections hitting the runway, is it time we start relying on our unobservable behaviour to show which you is really true..?

‘First Impressions’ by Melanie Mahony

‘First Impressions’ by Melanie Mahony

In the age of Instagram, it’s more than likely anyone new you meet has either already seen your online persona, or will look you up afterwards. 

Still. Life by Levon Baird

Still. Life by Levon Baird

Setting out to juxtapose the living with the artificial, Levon Baird presents a photographic series that is anything but real, "...except that those are real flowers, and the moments these photos were taken really did happen".

Pighead by Kids of Bill

Pighead by Kids of Bill

If we accept that our experience of the world is as much about judgement as it is the sum of our sensory experience, how heavily can we rely on seeing and hearing to reach an objective truth? In our first collaboration with Sydney based filmmakers, KidsofBill, Samuel Stevenson and Harrison Friend consider the imprecision of perception.

Playing With Fire by Luke Shadbolt & Eli Murphy

Playing With Fire by Luke Shadbolt & Eli Murphy

All things begin, end and begin again in fire. From the earliest dawning of humankind’s consciousness, fire has represented the most powerful and unrelenting source of change known to us.

Seeing Beauty by Daniel Nadel and Tatiana Farley

Seeing Beauty by Daniel Nadel and Tatiana Farley

The esoteric nature of how we consume information today has obliterated the singularity of the beauty code.

Make Out. A Series by Jesse Lizotte

Make Out. A Series by Jesse Lizotte

Five couples, on intimacy and each other.

Within The Big Picture: The Varying Intimacies of Experience by Levon Baird

Within The Big Picture: The Varying Intimacies of Experience by Levon Baird

Simultaneous narratives collide in Baird’s reflection on the experience of coexistence. If a picture tells a thousand words, how many more does it take to tell the tale of the individual?

My Children Will Know Love, by Tim Ashton

My Children Will Know Love, by Tim Ashton

In his most personal point of view, Photographer Tim Ashton captures the kind of intimacy that extends beyond two people, in a beautiful collection of pictures of his family.

Remember This Feeling by Divya Bala

Remember This Feeling by Divya Bala

Possession is symbiotic, the things we have, have us. There’s an intimacy that binds, that is forged as they live with you, against your skin.

CHILL is Not a Thing with Maddison Brown by Gracie Otto

CHILL is Not a Thing with Maddison Brown by Gracie Otto

Drawing on various streams of consciousness of colourful encounters past, CHILL is not a thing, starring Maddison Brown, looks at the reality of the female psyche in all its glory.

On Intimacy, by Jake Terrey

On Intimacy, by Jake Terrey

A study in form with sentiments of touch, fragments of a fuller picture and the varying perspectives of a non existent distance.

Sundance Kids by Stefania Paparelli

Sundance Kids by Stefania Paparelli

“They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.” 
― Zadie Smith

The Space Between Us (I hope you swipe what you’re looking for) by Noelle Faulkner

The Space Between Us (I hope you swipe what you’re looking for) by Noelle Faulkner

If love is a blanket of darkness that, despite dilated pupils, constricts our sight into a single-track tunnel, floods our brains with stress hormones and turns us into a dizzy mess of preoccupation and restlessness; then intimacy is the light switch.

The Language of Love by Matilda Dods

The Language of Love by Matilda Dods

There is a sweet and sticky awkwardness of falling in love that never truly leaves, even after the days of high school and asking your parents’ permission to go out with your boyfriend. Like an ice cream melting down your fingers, sugary trails to be licked off hands and wrists, leaving behind a sticky residue.

Part of that World by Mark Morgan

Part of that World by Mark Morgan

Dive deep, take risks, drive fast, seek solitude, chase thrills, trust instinct and think post-leap.

Making Sense of the World: Saara Sihvonen by Jaclyn Adams

Making Sense of the World: Saara Sihvonen by Jaclyn Adams

“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”  Yann Martel - ‘Life of Pi’.

The World of Pain: Shannan Click by Pierre Toussaint and Tatiana Farley

The World of Pain: Shannan Click by Pierre Toussaint and Tatiana Farley

Pain, a basic yet emotive human instinct designed to ensure our survival can often make surviving a death sentence of its own.

Taking the windy path: Tess Haubrich by Pierre Toussaint and Noelle Faulkner

Taking the windy path: Tess Haubrich by Pierre Toussaint and Noelle Faulkner

Without spoiling too much, it would seem that for most of her career, Sydney-based actress Tess Haubrich has been typecast as the girl that, well, dies.

Limits of Control: Memo from the Deep End by Noelle Faulkner

Limits of Control: Memo from the Deep End by Noelle Faulkner

How do you know you’re alive? Heartbeats? Breath? Pain? Love? Fear? Moments? Evidence left on your flesh? Risk? G-force? Caffeine? Existential dread?

Still Waters Run Deep by Mark Morgan

Still Waters Run Deep by Mark Morgan

The voice of God himself, Morgan Freeman, once observed, “Learning how to.. really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.” 

Alive

Alive

Edition N°2 ponders the vast notion of being ALIVE.
What it means to be ALIVE seems to be just as elusive as the meaning of life itself.

In This Day and Age by Tatiana Farley

In This Day and Age by Tatiana Farley

Punk rock prodigy Patti Smith astutely observed, “Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself.”

Knowing You, Knowing Me: Sarah Ellen by Georges Antoni

Knowing You, Knowing Me: Sarah Ellen by Georges Antoni

We talk to actress, influencer and social media star Sarah Ellen on the business of obsession, staying grounded and why she comes with a filter.

Youth Allowance by Hannah Scott-Stevenson

Youth Allowance by Hannah Scott-Stevenson

In questions of art and commerce, the words of 17th century French philosopher, Joseph Joubert still ring true: “Ask the young, they know everything”.

This is Australia by Peter Van Alphen

This is Australia by Peter Van Alphen

Our remote location, often billed as Asia-Pacific or Oceania, is one not mimicked anywhere else in the world and we’ve proudly built a lifestyle around that.