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CHANEL BARAN

I believe I live in a constant state of bliss, because my creativity fuels my happiness and my happiness refuels my creativity, it is an endless cycle of positive energy. I have embarked on a pursuit of happiness journey through life and in the future dream to travel this inspirational world of ours with my creative mind and camera in hand embracing life’s experiences and cultures. I create work that is the result of my unique insane creative mind. “Surround yourself with positivity, positive people and people that make you happy. Do what you love and love what you do.”

Email | chanel.baran@my.jcu.edu.au
Website | chanelbaranphotographics.4ormat.com

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ALEENA BRIDGE

I’m a fashion photographer who equally loves the process of planning and styling a shoot just as much as the actual photographing itself. My enthusiasm and knowledge in fashion speaks loud throughout my photos. I am inspired everyday by fashion editorials and always set a bar for my images to look like they could belong in the pages of a magazine. As an extension of my combined love for fashion and photography, I create garments from digitally printed fabric where my own images lay across the material.

Email | aleena.bridge@my.jcu.edu.au

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EMILY CLARKE

My mind is a creative wonderland where I observe and capture life through the lens of a camera. I am inspired by the world’s beautiful people and photograph them in elegant and unusual ways. Within my images I love to create a story, evoking an emotional reaction from the viewer. My passion thrives on light, colours, fashion, movement and experimentation. My imaginative eye has no creative boundaries. This is me, Emily Clarke.

Email | embrace.creations@live.com.au
Website | embracecreations.com.au

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KAINE CONSTANTINE

I am a photographer who likes to capture the unseen. Specialising in long exposure, I like to portray my work as a summary of all the thoughts that can be gathered in a scene, and collectively add my own attitudes into a scene via technical selection. I try not to edit as much as possible which means spending a vast amount of time on one image just to get the particular feel to it. My work is mostly done for personal satisfaction and achievement, however the desire to intrigue and awe is my secret drive.

Email | kconstantinephotography@gmail.com
Website | facebook.com/kaincphotography

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SANDRA HEIER EVENSEN

I portray people and places in a simple and straight on matter. I have affection for the unplanned, and like capturing people when they aren’t aware the camera is there, or those moments between poses when the model relaxes. I draw inspiration from images – moving and still – as well as what I see around me every day. Images are important to me. They are memories, documentation, proof, and inspiration. If I can create something for someone that can mean just a fraction of what so many images mean to me, then that is a goal achieved.

Email | sandra@sandraheier.com
Website | sandraheier.com

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FRANCES FITZSIMMONS

With my Canon 7d in hand I explore many different genres of photography that include fashion, medical and event and enhance the photographs with Adobe Photoshop. I have a passion for capturing moments and finding the beauty within the subject to create this art form. When practicing photography I endeavour to begin by sourcing inspiration from current circulating photographic work and develop it further to stamp my creative signature on it. So keep an eye out for my creative photographic signature.

Email | frances.fitzsimmons@hotmail.com

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DEE HATTON

I’m Dee Hatton I want to be a band photographer my dream job is to photograph major concerts such as Big Day Out, Splendour in the grass and Bamboozal. I want to work for Rollingstone magazine and photograph upcoming concerts, bands, and go on tours. I want to be a band photographer because I love music, live performances, the energy of the crowd and the atmosphere. I have photographed Groove in the moo, The Butterfly Effect, Short Stack, Powderfinger, Jet, Jessica Mauboy, and I photographed the full noise concert in October.

Email | destelles_photography@hotmail.com
Website | wix.com/deepikahatton/destelle

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BENJAMIN HUNG

I make tiny pixels and force them to collaborate into a photograph. Often I abuse these pixels by dodging and burning the hell out of them. After I let them cool down, they feel artificial and retouched. My best bud Photoshop, helps me blend my creativity into a hyperrealistic reality. I thrive behind the lens in fashion shoots, festivals, nightclubs and just throughout my life. Sometimes I feel moist…

Email | salivashake@gmail.com
Website | salivashake.com

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KRISTOFFER KRÅKSTAD

My work is a reflection of my dreams and reality. It is all about how I observe the world and cope with what is happening around me. It comes form a passion that needs to burst out form my mind, a need to create something different. These reflections often come out as a surreal mixture of dreams and real life landscapes form which time cannot escape. A moment suspended in time.

Email | krakstadfoto@gmail.com
Website | krakstad.carbonmade.com

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SAMANTHA LAWRENCE

When I create work I don’t set out to create a meaning through the image. I use the process of creating the image to determine the meaning behind it. I feel working behind the camera is when my creativity works best, so instead of forcing ideas, I go with what is around me to create something beautiful. I love capturing the beauty in peoples faces is one of the main reasons I love photography.

Email | samantha.lawrence90@gmail.com
Website | samanthalawrencephotography.500px.com