For the past few months, there has been some contemplation of establishing a street photography website to best represent what Sydney is really like. There has been a massive proliferation of many people working on a similar format but as yet, there is none for Sydney. Sydney, as mundane as it is at intervals and not as a city with the same calibre as Paris or New York, there is originality and beauty amongst the hidden and inner streets. Should we have another website documenting the way people dress creatively? The short answer hopefully, yes.

The planned website format will be as well presented as Hedi Slimane’s diary. To show a gallery of images like a sketchbook or visual diary as documentation rather than a typical style blog and images captured as surprised moments rather than an arbitrary process. All the thanks will go to Liisa Jokinen and Sampo Karjalainen who both have given street photography great perspectives.

Dear fellow Danes, Hej! Jonas Arnby, Sanne Frank and Elisabeth Heltoft of Chi Chi Potter are opening their 2nd exhibition night featuring artworks of Noam Griegst, Heidi Anderson, Marlene Hartmann, Maria Bajt, Thea Bjerre and more. The opening night will be on this Friday October 24 from 5 to 9PM and the address in Copenhagen is:

Gothersgade 27
1123 Copenhagen

Hope you all enjoy it if you can make it there.

Only a few days ago, both Randy Johnston and Hayley Marie Kohle came to a tragic ending to their life and modelling career. Randy, only 20 featured in Hedi Slimane’s last show apperance as creative director of Dior Homme in the Fall 2007 Dior runway show. His death is unsubstantiated. On also the same day, Canadian model Hayley Marie Kohle also tragically died after falling 7 storeys in Milan. The exact circumstance of her death is also unknown. She was 26.

A few interesting notes on the website that a number of people have been trying to locate certain labels and where they may find them here in Sydney or abroad. Please feel free to get in contact by email below and hopefully your questions can be answered.

mike[at]culturesinbetween.net

More specifically, the ‘Play’ collection line by Comme des Garçons is only available in Sydney through Our Spot. Please check with the duo for more details as it will be made available from October 1. 

To keep the flow of new stories running smoothly, please refer to the News section left of the website for all recent updates.

The website had a slight problem with the Features page which has been fixed. A number of older stories is yet to be categorised properly, this will be fixed soon.

Dear Everyone,
Recently for the past two to three days, the website has had downtime due to a technical problem with the website’s domain registrar. Hopefully everything is now resolved and the website will be back to normal. Please also be aware that all accompanying videos on the website is now the high quality streams from YouTube.

M.H.

Dear Everyone,

Just a small update, the website will resume with new stories after next week. On another note, if you want to find the Australian periodical Doingbird by Photographer Max Doyle and Malcolm Watt, you will be able to find it at: Universal News, St Mark’s Bookstore, Spoonbill & Sugartown (New York) - Colette, Centre Pompidou, The Lazy Dog, Surface 2 Air, Agnes B (Paris) - Borders, Tate Modern, Magma Books (London).

You will also be able to find it in various locations in Germany including Berlin, Dortmund, Hannover, Frankfurt and Hamburg.

‘Anticipation’ - SummerWinter
Photography by Christopher Ferguson - Cover: Abbey Lee Kershaw

Please also try and locate SummerWinter magazine through here. It is directly available in Paris at Colette and Surface 2 Air.