Instagram and iphone photographs

 I have a few cameras, film, digital, full frame and the trusty i-phone.

On Instagram I tend to share a lot of my i-phone images, here are some of them.

 

all work copyright Matthew Schiavello 2021.

Local music

Recently I have been really enjoying some music which just happens to be local, or local-ish.


DMA's their LP 'Hills End' is really strong and well worth exploring. They are from Sydney and sounds like they have a bit of a brit-pop/oasis influence, which is especially noticeable in their track 'Timeless'
Here are two songs from them:

DMA's- 'Delete':


The next clip is full of interesting older people, it was filmed at the Globe Pub in Hackney, London. I can't stop watching!

DMA's- 'Timeless':




This next band, Gold Class, are from Melbourne. I am really enjoying their LP 'It's you'. Spiky, raw and urgent, this may not be for everyone. You can buy their work on bandcamp! Here are two tracks from them.

Gold Class- 'Life as a gun':


I love the clip for this next track and especially love the 'echos' of each person projected on and behind them.

Gold Class- 'Bite down':


This last band, Methyl Ethyl, are from Perth. I quite like the cover to their lp 'Oh Inhuman Spectacle'. I keep meaning to check out the LP and hope to soon!

Methyl Ethel- 'Twilight driving':


Here is their Lp Cover:

All work copyright of the respective artist/s.

More Melbourne

Following on from my last post, here are some more images of Melbourne that were considered for a small job. Some of these may have been previously shared on this blog before.

all images copyright matthew schiavello 2012-2016

A walk with AK- Nov 2014

Having a photographer as a date/partner or friend, is never easy. You can never just go for a walk, as the camera usually comes along and a 30 minute walk becomes an hour.  Here are some photos from a couple of walks I took with AK last November. A few images of AK waiting for me are thrown in, to show his states of exasperation as I became excited about things to take photographs of.

"AK, look at the patterns these powerlines are making!"

"AK, hold up, you are too fast, look at this cool stuff to photograph!"

"AK, I am almost done, just a few more shots..oh wow, have you seen this??!!!

"AK!, Look at the moon through the power poles and lines! Wow, I have to get a shot of this!"

"AK, Look at the moon and the clouds!, I have to get a photo of this!"

"Hey AK, how interesting is this cracked and painted Footpath?!!!  I have to take some photos of it!":

AK's response:

All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2014-2015

The Shambelles, the end is near....

On the 20th of December, the Shambelles will play their last gig. They have been around for 6 years and are an ACE party band. I have taken a quite a few photographs of the band over the past few years. Not only has my confidence as a photographer grown over this time, but we (the band and I), have become more and more comfortable with each other, which shows in the photographs.

If you are around on December 20th, then pop down to the Lomond Hotel in East Brunswick (Victoria, Australia), to see the band go out with a bang!I'll be there as well..maybe come along and share a beer with me :-)

Here are some images I took of their second last gig, at the Royal Oak hotel on November the 20th.


Julia On Drums!

Mon on guitar! 

 Alics on Bass!

Jody on Vocals!

Three of the Belles!

All four!

 

The belles:

All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2014

True North Festival

This year I was invited to be part of the True North Festival. This is local festival run by the Darebin council. It is on from Friday the 21st of March until Sunday the 23rd of March.
I am blown away to be one of four artists selected to take part in an exciting event called: 'cARTography…mapping the creative process'. 
One of my photographs will be placed in a shop front window in Edwards St, Reservoir along with some text describing/mapping my 'creative process'.

For those of you who can travel to it easily, pop down to Edwards St, Reservoir this weekend and especially check out the shop window at 2 Edwards Street (yes, it is all about me!). For those of you across the seas and distances, here is my image (which will be presented as a 20X30 inch print) and some text on my process:


                                                         "certain/uncertain #18"

cARTography....mapping the creative process

by matthew schiavello.

The creative destination, how did we, how did I arrive here?

Sometimes our destination is reached as a result of a well thought out and planned process. We select the destination, we map it all out and we follow the plan. Sometimes we make
adjustments along the way, sometimes we don’t.

Sometimes, we kind of know where we want to go and we head off with little or no planning. We hope we may get there and sometimes we aren’t too fussed if we don’t.

 
More often or not for me, I tend to realise I have arrived somewhere without meaning to. I chuckle to myself and wonder how I managed it. 

My most favourite destinations have never been planned.

My photographic works are like this. I sometimes go out with an idea of what I will try and do, but this generally falls by the wayside and before I know it, I have arrived someplace other and someplace much better than I could have imagined or planned for.

With camera in hand I walk about city backstreets and photograph whatever catches my eye and my attention.  Sometimes I don’t know why I like what I see, sometimes I am
confused as my mind attempts to find worth and meaning in what I am photographing. When this happens I tell my mind to be quiet as I try to appreciate the beauty in what I see. I ask, is there something wrong or shameful in not knowing why you like something?


 
I digress, for I am meant to discuss how my style of abstract photography became so? How did I unintentionally arrive at this destination?

I guess the answer lies in how I arrived at who I am, without a map and also unintentionally. I grew up in the housing commission towers and estates in Collingwood and its
surrounding areas. We were poor and had little but our imaginations to keep us entertained. In the stark greyness of the towers and estates, we had to look for the beauty that was
around us, which was often hidden or overshadowed by all else.  

In my late teens I stumbled across a phrase by Pierre-Jules Renard- “Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it”.  I asked myself, what if the word ‘ridiculous’ was replaced with another word, would the same ring true? What if that word was 'beauty'?

 
Could we find beauty everywhere? If I had found it in those cold dark grey commission towers, surely I could find it anywhere else if I looked?

Here I am many years later, with my eyes still looking for and still finding the beauty in what lies around me.  Those neglected and vandalised spaces that are seen as an eyesore and
abhorred by many, are often a treasure trove of beauty for me and my camera.  But enough of me, where do you find or see beauty?


 
all work © matthew schiavello 2014

some new images- Melbourne Now! December 2013

I have been pretty busy of late, with a new job, a photography gig that was very time consuming and my usual photography, socialising and curating a photographic blog as well! More of the photographic blog later.... There are many more blogs and images from Amsterdam and Belgium to come, but for now, here are some recent-ish photographs from the Melbourne Now! Exhibition, which I attended with my brother -in- law.


On the way to pick up my brother-in-law:

These are taken at the Melbourne Now, exhibition:

Edo as projection screen:

"underneath it all, underneath all of the different colours that flesh comes in, we are all the same'" :

all photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013

Street Art - August 2013

I thought I would share a couple of images that I have captured over the past few months. I love that a casual stroll down the street can lead you across some interesting and often beautiful pieces of art.



Somewhere in High St,  Northcote:

I saw this piece and smiled... I haven't heard this phrase in a while and it made me wonder if we really are 'up shit creek'.

Carlton, somewhere near the University:

Off Queens parade, North Fitzroy:

I love the feathers that are glued on and form the tutu.

Off Smith St, Collingwood:

This is a great door!

Near Brunswick St, Fitzroy:
Art is everywhere... even down smelly, disgusting and dangerous lanes.

Off Gertrude St, Fitzroy:

All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013, art copyright the individual artists, whose names I know not.