Sneak Peek....

A sneak peek at a couple of photos from my first live music shoot at the Astoria in London. It was for Taste of Chaos 2008...and it was quite different from what I'm used to. Taste of Chaos in Sydney is always held in arenas, so having it held in a small venue is quite unusual.

Anyway, here's a couple of the pics: Alex Varkartzas from Atreyu and The Skull from Story of the year.












The rest shall be going up on the Planet Loud website. I'll post more when I'm officially allowed to.

It's all so quiet...

Yes, I have been a little quiet of late...mainly due to having relocated...yes indeed - I am now in the UK (London to be exact). Had a bit of a holiday as well - finally made my first trip to Japan and New York City. They are both the most amazing places in the world, and if you ever ever get the chance, definately go to both those places.

I will get my act together and post some images from my travels (they will be dodgy snapshot digital camera shots, but at least you'll get the picture), and get some design work up as well...

till then check out the Airside Blog and the Mainframe Blog (both in the linkages section)...both amazing studios doing amazing work.

laters!
Evil Ev

Hardcore 2008 (18+) @ Manning bar

Had the awesome awesome pleasure of shooting Parkway Drive again at the Manning Bar for the 18+ show. Although, it was a bit of a rush...I'd found out about the pass at 6pm and doors opened at 6pm. I had to do the bolt to the Manning Bar. But it was well worth it as Parkway Drive never ever fail to impress me live. Their live show is one of the best in the country, and Winston is a crazy frontman.

Anyway, here are some of the results of the shoot...

Keeping myself occupied...

I was contemplating the thought of buying my third (or is it fourth?) pair of converse chuck taylors as i've completely destroyed my current pair (the side seams are pretty much torn off in big 10cm gashes on both shoes and one's a dark browny colour while the other is still black)...and a friend of mine suggested I have a look at the converse website - where you can design your own chucks...only problem is that I can't buy them as they are only shipping to the US...

Anyway, here's the design I came up with:









they've got skulls and crossbones in black and white on the outside, and then on the tongue, laces and insides are red...and the rubber parts of the shoe are black...how I wish I could order them!

Some older work

I've been going through some old albums...and I found some of my older work from last year...as well as some pictures that weren't published (or were and then disappeared) on the website that I usually contribute to, fasterlouder.com.au.

Anyway, enjoy :)

(bands in the pics: 1. Stephen Christian from Anberlin, 2. Keith Buckley from Every Time I Die, 3. Andrew Bain from Fur Patrol, 4. Matt Balfe from motor ace, 5. Karl Kippenberger from Shihad)

First blog post

Welcome one and all to the official blog for Paper hearts photography + design. I decided to create this particular blog due to the fact that the majority of my photos I post up on myspace, but you need to be a member and signed in to actually view the photos. Anyway, I shall be posting some images soon from some of the bands that I've had the priviledge of photographing. I'll also include some designs and photo retouching I've also done in the past.

As a first taste, here are a couple of bands that I shot recently :

Bands listed - 1st two photos: Story of the year; 3rd photo: The Audition, 4th photo: DIllinger Escape Plan; 5th photo: Dillinger Escape Plan