Exposure Lifestyles

Shapeshifter at Wellington Town Hall

2010-07-24T11:42:00.005+12:00

With a sound system made for 20,000 people, the Town Hall was pumping! Such an incredible night. I haven't photographed Shapeshifter live for a while so it was an honour to be invited along to document all parts of the show. PAT

Afternoon Raj

2010-07-17T21:23:00.003+12:00

Afternoon Raj rocked Watusi Bar lastnight. Such a good gig!

Good Karma Project Documentary

2010-03-19T11:55:00.006+13:00

I'm stoked to let you all know that the documentary about the project is now live and online! Thanks to the skills of Jason Naran on the editing front, we have a great visual story of the trip!

The Good Karma Project

2010-01-21T14:24:00.014+13:00

Christmas 2009 was a little different from usual. I spent six weeks on the Thai/Burma border working on a project founded by myself and my good friend, Josh. We named it 'The Good Karma Project' and it saw us teaching photography and art to children who have fled the oppression of Burma for a safer life in Thailand. We worked with New Zealand charity, Children On The Edge, and focused on migrant schools that are fully funded by donations from the New Zealand public.

We learnt so much about the situation through the children and other volunteers we spent time with. Below are a selection of images taken over the six weeks. The Good Karma exhibition and magazine both launch on the 1st April. I look forward to keeping you posted with more news closer to the time. A huge thanks goes out to all those who supported us with donations and of course to the sponsors who supplied us with the gear we needed to make the project happen.

MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP – Home to over 60,000 refugees

THOO MWEH KHEE SCHOOL – This is where we spend three weeks teaching photography

MAE SOT RUBBISH DUMP – We spend a week teaching art at Sky Blue School which is located on the rubbish dump

BURMESE INDEPENDENCE DAY – January 4th

The Wailers

2009-11-22T17:54:00.004+13:00

Friday evening was the night for Wellington music fans to pull out their best Rasta style threads, as the legendary Wailers were in town! It was one huge sing-along with the band performing all the stunning songs from 'Exodus'. Those songs even carried on for the train journey home with all passengers cranking out a slightly drunken 'No Woman, No Cry'. What a night!

Fat Freddy's Drop

2009-11-15T15:00:00.004+13:00

Fat Freddy's gig at the Frontroom really shook those skeletons out of the closet! The Halloween gig saw the band warm up the room with their ass shaking antics. The constant fogging of my lens was a sign that I should have been dancing, rather than snapping! Glad I kept snapping though as the lighting provided some awesome Kodak moments!

To see more of the shots head to Freddy's website:
http://www.fatfreddysdrop.com/halloween-shakedown-the-front-room/

Little Bushman and NZSO

2009-11-05T18:11:00.004+13:00

Little Bushman live with NZSO was the second orchestral collaboration I have photographed for the Bushies. The evening was a beautiful journey through sound that really made your skin tingle. Great work guys!

DJ Skitz and Deadly Hunta

2009-10-21T10:32:00.002+13:00

DJ Skitz and Deadly Hunta rock! Hunta's back freaked out on him 30 mins before he was due on stage and he couldn't move. We had to call an ambulance to check him out, they said he wouldn't be performing again for weeks, yet an hour later he was up on stage rocking the San Fran Bathhouse, incredible!

Fly My Pretties 3

2009-06-17T13:44:00.004+12:00

Wow! What an incredible show it was. Huge congrats to everybody involved!

Issue Six out now

2009-06-13T10:27:00.003+12:00

It's finally ready! Issue six is now on the streets and online. We have a stunning lineup looking into the power that art and music have to influence social change. Go check it out now!

Cheers
PAT

Rio Hunuki - Hemopo

2009-03-26T12:46:00.003+13:00

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

2009-03-09T12:18:00.005+13:00

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

2009-03-09T12:08:00.004+13:00

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

2009-03-04T13:22:00.012+13:00

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.

I'm hoping to post new shots every few weeks, if you want to see more, please subscribe and the posts will be sent straight to your email.

Enjoy! PAT

TYPESHED 11

2009-03-04T12:59:00.011+13:00

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

2009-03-04T12:39:00.008+13:00

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

2009-03-04T12:29:00.009+13:00

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!