Saturday, November 29, 2008

Hives



Model: Dharsha Maurice
Photographer, styling: Matthew J Elliott

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Carolyn

My adopted mother sent me these murals she was making for her local church in Stoke-on-Trent, England. I love them.



I was nearly kidnapped from the welfare by one of Tracey's boyfriends Morris. He was the one that got her on to junk. I asked her about the first time she had a shot of heroin. Morris had locked her in the cubicle at Canterbury Foster home where I was staying and wouldn’t let her out until she shot with him. Apparently she could hear me in the next room asking where she was. They were in there for hours. We hopped in the car with Morris to drop me at a new home for a while. Tracey recalls me sitting in the back seat saying, ‘mummy you’re burning your dress’. She was sedated and didn't realise the cigarette had lit her dress on fire.

It only took several shots. She doesn’t use heroin anymore, but was addicted for about 6 months then fled to Tasmania and went cold turkey. Now she is on a daily dose of methadone, 6 valium, drinks and has her smoke.

Morris is dead.







Monday, November 24, 2008

New America


I want to cut you with a knife my love and taste your flesh again.
I want to poke your eyes out my love to see what you see.
I want to smash your head against a rock my love to understand your thinking.

Stephen Scott Smith

Perry Axzkien

22.11.08



Model: Perry Axzkien
Photographer: Matthew J Elliott

Little Zephyr

Photographer for Melbourne's boutique restaurant Little Zephyr.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

(Untitled)

07.09.08
I took the great Joshua Bonita Tonkin to a disclosed location one rainy Sunday afternoon.





Dead To The World

30/08/08

Friday, November 7, 2008

Faces of Footscray

05.04.08

There's a whole stack more on flickr.







Photography: Matthew J Elliott & Richard Fanale