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27/03/2025

Next up is the lovely - she writes “The erratic rhythm of life as an artist, jumping from project to project, times when you cannot take a breath and others feeling like the abyss of nothingness will extinguish your creativity entirely, has come as a massive wake up call having completed drama school, especially the realisation that this constant unrest is the restof my life. Learning to love the instability ofthe creative world is something I am sure willchallenge me for a long time yet. One thing I know for sure is that this ever changing beast leaves only ripe opportunities for creativity and growth” #

25/03/2025

My favourite shots from my shoot in January 2025 of Riyan Jackson . He writes “I thought about someone I used to know whom didn’t appreciate my presence for me. How me leaving them behind has been for the better, & how me trying to pursue my dreams & creative endeavours has made my life better & also helped me grow into a stronger & mature person. How being in an area with nature is peaceful, calming in moments of anger & sadness. But also how I felt in this moment of peace was a sense of longing & craving for something in my heart that I’ve never truly had. But I imagined a bright & happy future for myself & just try to keep moving forward & hope for the best because the best you can do is try.“ Thanks Riyan. I love the images we captured together. I did something different on this shoot and I think it evoked your story beautifully. developed and scanned by

25/03/2025

Next up is who writes “I’m really glad I got invited to be part of this shoot. It felt grounding. Standing under these 200-year-old trees, noticing their lines and scars, made me think about how they’ve lived and carried their own stories. It’s such a simple thing—just being under a few trees—but it felt so much bigger than that. I don’t even know why I cried, but I did. Maybe it was something about the stillness, the weight of time pressing against the moment, or the quiet reminder that even the oldest things still stand.

That feeling deepened when Josh and I talked about how the last time I’d stepped in front of a camera was about 10 years ago, back when I was modeling. Those memories flooded back—some good, others more complicated. I remembered the excitement and creativity of those moments, but also the times I felt like just a shell of myself, being used as a coat hanger, detached from the person I really was.
Stepping in front of the camera again, in this completely different context, felt grounding in a way I hadn’t experienced before. The theme of mental health gave space for something real to emerge—something I hadn’t always allowed back then. It reminded me of how far I’ve come, and how much more I can connect with myself now, in a way that feels true and steady, like those trees standing quietly through the years.” Thanks so much for being involved Jess!

20/03/2025

Next up is .wynd ! She writes “As a kid in the playground, clinging onto something for dear life was fun, another time it was the only choice. For some reason now they feel very connected - hanging by a thread and innocent play.

Being this high up in the tree is kind of scary because falling will hurt, especially if you’re pretty much suspended (in time and nerves) by keeping the pressure at just the right amount. Too much and you tire out, not enough and you drop immediately.
But by leaning on your supports, at least you won’t fall.” Thanks for being involved Jessii!

16/03/2025

Some more of my photography series on ‘coping’ next up featuring the lovely from January 2025. Britt writes “I was thinking of the woman who had stopped to help me when I had a bad accident. I can’t remember her face completely but I know she had blonde hair and had a flower claw clip in her hair. She was so kind to me in a moment where I felt desperate and scared. I was a total mess and she got me through it with patience, gentleness and kind words. I never found out her name or was able to thank her properly. I don’t even think I would recognise her if I passed her again. But she stayed with me that morning when I had no one else. I’m still learning to cope with the mental trauma that comes after a car accident.

I also thought of my two best friends who have passed in car accidents. I found two feathers, not far away from each other, and instantly I thought of them. I love cockatoos, and they both came from cockatoos. When I think of my guardian angels, I know they’re the ones looking out for me and stay by my side day to day. So to find feathers was such an instant representation of them for me. I found a wide leaf that made me think of the lady who helped me. She was wearing a similar shade of green and the leaf was wide and unbroken, which I found a type of security and comfort in that, on the day of the accident as well as in the leaf today.”

03/01/2025

Next up from my shoot last week on the theme of ‘coping’ features ! I loved the lighting on these ones and how it glistened through Vincent’s hair! Vincent wrote “I find a branch within reach and search it for different leaves. Inside one of the leaves there’s a unique web. But I can’t remove the web, as it’s too sticky to remove without completing breaking it. Yet I can still feel it, see it and appreciate it. I’ll never know of the creatures who came across it. I may never see the day the leaf falls and is crushed by those who walk over it. But while it hangs from the tree woven in web, I can acknowledge it, appreciate it, and let the experience pass by. Radical acceptance of what it is.” developed and scanned by

01/01/2025

Another highlight from my shoot the other day with on the theme of “coping”! Flynn wrote “I thought of a recent event with my dad but then funny enough thought about this past boxing day when I backed my car into the wall of the gym I go to. Not the greatest feeling and I felt so dumb especially when I saw the dent. I coped by saying it wasn’t that bad, and by looking up online people who might have had worse or similar situations. It’s funny how we find comfort in knowing that our suffering isnt unique or lonesome…” .

31/12/2024

My favourite shot from my most recent photoshoot on the theme of ‘Coping’ from Saturday December 28th featuring the wonderful ! In 6 years of doing these shoots nobody has ever climbed a tree. There were more photos from this shoot but I love the simplicity of these three photos together. JK wrote “when you’re a kid, you’re not afraid to try, to dare…You do it just because you like it. So when you need it most, find the gratitude in play, climb a tree and never grow up”. Thanks JK I’ll be taking that with me into 2025 and so should everybody else. I’ll be sharing two other favourites from Saturday’s shoot in the lead up to my final session this Sunday. For now happy new year everybody and don’t forget to climb your own tree, stay safe and have fun

17/12/2024

A huge thank you to everybody who helped get me to this point. My PhD supervisors Dr Simon Weaving and Associate Professor Craig Hight. My initial design supervisors Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh and Professor Mario Minichiello. My research assistants and everybody who signed up to be in a focus group. A warm thanks to all the people who worked on my feature film and those that helped get the word out there. Without the cast and crew who honoured me with their time there wouldn’t have been the opportunity for a thesis. Thank you to for the initial motivation to pursue doctoral research and for his support along the way going back nearly 10 years. Thank you to my parents and my brother for introducing me to the work of Herzog when we were kids. Thank you to for believing in our movie and to for being an early advocate. Thanks to for his letter of recommendation to pursue doctoral research. Thank you to .tv for facilitating our television distribution on SBS. To celebrate here are photos of me with Chancellor Patricia Forsythe AM and Professor Kent Anderson and a lil video of me doing all the doffing. 10 years after beating my tumour, it feels surreal to be here and good to be anywhere. Onwards and upwards.

13/12/2024

Truly lost for words. Thank you to my supervisors, thank you to my family, my friends and to my students who I was lucky enough to graduate with on the same day. Congratulations to all!

06/12/2024

We are updating our portfolio and while we do we are also publishing some of our silly 'jankmations'! One of the latest ones is now public on YouTube, made in 48 hours earlier this year it's a DADA inspired take on this year's theme from Take48! We were lucky to screen at Sydney Underground Film Festival too! Thanks to Lucie Brumont for her voice talents and all the contributors who sent in photos. Check it out and smash that like button etc.

A short film made in 48 hours for TAKE48 as part of Sydney Underground Film Festival 2024. Starring Lucie Brumont. Thank you to all contributors of images An...

26/11/2024

Congratulations to on nearing the completion of ! Thank you for inviting me to moderate the Q&A with some lovely folks including ! Congrats to all the cast and crew and all the best for the release and final edit! Big love to the amazing photography talents of .mallon and to the man for all that he does behind the scenes!

02/11/2024

This deserves some reflection and consideration. After returning from La Palma I spent the last month working and also delaying finalising the short film I made under the mentorship of Werner Herzog and Peter Zeitlinger care of . La Selva gave us one month to finalise the colour, the sound and whatever else we needed to alter. Well today was the day to submit and I did not think that the same week I would submit the film for Mr Herzog’s final viewing that my PhD thesis about pursuing the ecstatic truth would also be released into the world through my university. The universe (even the galaxy-ifykyk) works in mysterious ways and the notion that two of the most important events of my life coincided and even collided in the same week…This is astounding, “illuminating” and humbling to me. This photo, of a happy couple of “mad men”, I will treasure always, and it seems fitting to share it with you all now. 10 years ago I received news that changed my life, I would never have dreamt that 10 years later I’d be standing here and accomplishing these things. A tale that feels like time travel but lived through life. A reminder to anybody reading this, that the crazy daydream you have is possible. Thank you to for the image and to the lovely for handling my dadcam and capturing the moment on video ♥️

21/10/2024

More memories from my time in La Palma. First up this hilarious photo thanks to of the ‘boyband of La Palma’, by sheer co-incidence we came in our best matching attire for the screening day. Each one of these fellas is a wonderful soul that I am blessed to know ♥️

Another angle from our arsenal day with some more of the gear in the frame. I enjoyed watching Werner use a super 8mm camera with his elbows bent and to see him considering the weaponry on offer as he offered pre war pep talks.

Another collage of some of the shots of the arches, I became quite enamoured with these and was glad to feature them in the film I made on the island. Also some mood boards I made in the moment as we frantically tried to find a story or point of interest.

Some more angles of the lava fields and boundary markers of pinecones that some people have placed to mark where their properties once stood…

Some photos of Caleb and I and our fun driver Mariano on one of our final shoot days. Brothers in arms just like the mechanical arms. Caleb and I at one of the volcanos shooting a timelapse and Caleb standing there, a lone ranger in a field of blue sky.

The coffee crew with the guy that quit caffeine a month before the trip because he thought it would somehow be a good idea and then had one sip of coffee and was buzzing (me).

Breakfast and dinner crew celebrating the Princess banquets and the weirdest arrangements of food we could possibly create to stir away the breakfast boredom.

Almost first and last photo with Caleb on the trip! Beautiful sunset convos with Mathieu and Simon and a medley with some of the special people on the final day. And a sneaky assembly of people pitching to Herzog and Zeitlinger. Thanks for coming along to another entry of Joshua’s latergram photo diary 🍌 ❤️

18/10/2024

A little slideshow of some of my favourite moments from the trip. What an amazing experience meeting so many talented and fascinating individuals from around the world united by their love of cinema and more specifically Herzog and even the pursuit of ecstatic truth. This post goes out to all the new friends and colleagues and is courtesy of my camera roll on my phone! The first photo is at these mysterious arches which Werner was obsessed with. I asked Jas to stand in there to make it have scale and interest. When we arrived there Werner said “what were they thinking building this?” I answered back “perhaps they could not afford to build a clock or a wristwatch?” He nodded and said “yah you may be right.” This interchange between us got me thinking about the subject of time! More on that later…Second photo is the first round table cocktail meeting when Werner arrived. Third photo is the “arsenal day” where Werner wanted us to display all the equipment we had to show him what was possible. He was astounded at our gear and I distinctly remember him saying “you must fly this drone, maybe over the lava?! And this boom? You mustn’t use it. It will make the islanders nervous”. I’d spent a lot of money on both the drone and the boom. Both things were going to be used 😆! Next photo with the awesome as we go through our recce! I did take a selfie (not pictured) to tell him we should break the rules where possible. Selfies were in-expressly forbidden. Also featured is Caleb trying out the gimbal with an R5 MK2 from Canon. The following shots are from the reccee of a banana plantation something the island is famous for…following that a trip to see the houses which were engulfed by flames and lava. Something which was deeply troubling. Following that another shot of with his super8 camera BEFORE being signed by Werner. After that some sneaky behind the scenes photos from the production van on one of our final trips away from the Princess prison. There are so many memories and so many moments to reflect upon- one post just isn’t enough! Big cameras were mostly forbidden on these recces, hence the phone photos.

14/10/2024

During my time in La Palma I had the chance to talk shop, career and movie making with the legendary cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger. Zeitlinger filmed many of my favourite iconic Herzog films from the last 30 years, namely ‘Little Dieter Needs to Fly’ (1997), key scenes in ‘Grizzly Man’ (2005), ‘Encounters at the End of the World’ (2008), ‘Bad Lieutenant’ (2009), ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ (2011) and many others. When Peter first arrived I introduced myself to him with .hatton and we began talking about our practice. Soon our conversation turned into a private lecture. Gradually more accelerator participants gathered around us in this informal conversation that would become a class. Before long we were discussing dynamic range, colour spaces, the differences between film latitude and digital cameras and the pressures from studios to film everything in perfect exposure and conditions. I remember asking Peter whether he’d seen the changes in camera technology introducing greater pressures on cinematographers delivering perfect images. I gave the example of films from the 70s often having beautifully overexposed backgrounds when filming indoors. Nowadays because of the combination of sensor technology and indoor lighting affordability it has made the effect of having an overexposed background look like a mistake. This began a discussion of Peter’s films and his candid outlook on working with big crews and small crews and particularly the colour green in ‘Rescue Dawn’! This turned into a lengthy conversation over a production meeting and I remember feeling blessed to have Peter join us for our first pre-production meeting with the La Selva team. I was also very happy to discuss my future projects with him as well as the current feature documentary I am finalising. I have more stories to tell here but they will wait for another day due to instagram’s character limit! Thank you Peter! Thank you to for this photo of me coming between Peter and Werner as they bid a heartfelt goodbye in German to one another when Peter left and to for the photos of Peter and myself and Caleb!

13/10/2024

One of the most memorable moments of my time with and being mentored by Werner Herzog was when we sat down together to watch the full rough cut of the film I made on La Palma. He watched through several minutes of my footage on the first day and was impressed with the visuals and the mood. Though my original pitch was to include a personal story from myself and reflexively relate it to Eva Lilith Pereda’s story, without spending too long he told me “don’t even waste time assembling that material on the timeline, it is a hangover from journalism, divorce yourself from journalism, it is boring and uninteresting, let her voice guide the story, you don’t need so many layers in a short film, in a feature film maybe! But throw it in the bin”. This was both music to my ears and fire burning in my lungs. My mind went ablaze with the possibilities of which direction to take the narrative. In less than one day I reworked my idea from what I originally pitched (more on that later), though this ‘knocked me for 6’ as we say in this part of the world. I remember I had some lovely and important conversations with other filmmakers like and about this too, thank you for the memorable advice to make two versions so that I could reach my own conclusions. The next day I sat down with Werner and he watched the rough cut I assembled rapidly, his words burned into my memory “this is very, very good. I like how balanced your film is and there is great depth. Yeah you’ve got the film. Don’t ever touch it…I mean the tiny things but don’t touch it any further. It’s very, very good like that. It’s a real movie. And you know it and I don’t have to say it…you know it yourself.” There were many other moments like this with Werner that will be etched into my soul for years to come. Thank you to for these shots! This is now a Werner Herzog instagram page so strap yourselves in for more stories as I frantically remember them while they are fresh and immortalise them on the gram!

09/10/2024

An amazing time on La Palma learning from Werner Herzog and Peter Zeitlinger thanks to ! Thank you to .hatton and my other pals for these photos. I had the opportunity to ask Werner many questions on the trip and his answers will guide me on the next part of my journey. Sometimes we were invited to sit with him and converse, particularly after Zeitlinger departed the party. But on one occasion I stood up and asked him and Zeitlinger about their use of ‘absence’ in their films, “so there’s something I’m very curious about in many of your films- you announce when something cannot be shown. That the absence of something is more powerful. I’m wondering if you can talk about how that works in the minds of the audience and how maybe that engages their imagination more than if you showed something. Kind of like what you talked about in Grizzly Man with not showing the harrowing footage of Timothy Treadwell or when we aren’t allowed to see inside a cave to see the nesting grounds of birds” he responded with something along the lines of…from my scribbled annotations… WH: That it is a choice of absence, it’s an interesting question, because sometimes the absence of something is quite interesting, the film I made in Indonesia. There is a great hall…There is a TV screen and the TV is switched on…we only see white noise and I had the feeling this complete emptiness in one screen playing for no-one, would be interesting. I simply moved an empty chair…” Herzog then demonstrated by moving out of his ‘Sedia gestatoria’ and panned along with his hands simulating a shot from an imaginary screen to a chair…he continues “so Peter was filming the empty screen and then PZ: it’s completely magic. WH: It’s completely strange and mad. No image for no one. Then all of a sudden the absence of a program and the absence of any spectator on an island of millions is kind of weird. It’s quickly organised and you emphasize the sense of absence.” It was one of Herzog’s simplest answers to me and an example of his literal mind at play. It was also one small microcosmic example of the beautiful conversations I was lucky to have with Werner !