Within The Big Picture: The Varying Intimacies of Experience by Levon Baird

PHOTOGRAPHED BY: Levon Baird @ Company1
STYLED BY: Karla Clarke & Emma Kalfus
MODELS: Evelina & Sian @ Priscillas | Nicholas & Anna @ IMG | Maya @ Kult | Adam @ Debut Management
HAIR BY: Pete Lennon @ Company1
MAKEUP BY: Joel Babicci @ Company1
ART DIRECTION: Stephanie Huxley

Simultaneous narratives collide in Baird’s reflection on the experience of coexistence. If a picture tells a thousand words, how many more does it take to tell the tale of the individual?

Sian wears Levi's shirt | Sportmax pants | Celine bag and shoes

Nicholas wears Burberry polo, cardigan, track pants & jacket

Evalina wears Max Mara trousers | Bassike top | Bally jacket

Adam wears Bally pants, jacket & cap | Maya wears Bally track pants, top and bag

Adam wears Bally pants, jacket & cap | Maya wears Bally track pants, top, bag & sneakers

Anna wears Bally coat, socks, sneakers and her own glasses

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THE HOLIDAY BY NICOLE BENTLEY

Summer skin, kissed by sunlight and the delicate luminescence of sweat, tempting us to a place less travelled and a time more pure. A destination bound wardrobe of vintage inspired prints and textures - fluid, feminine and forever in demand.

Seeing Beauty by Daniel Nadel and Tatiana Farley

The esoteric nature of how we consume information today has obliterated the singularity of the beauty code.

GOING THE DISTANCE BY JACLYN ADAMS

New York City has been romanticised by lyrics, cinema and poetry that re-posts and captions will keep alive for all of social media’s eternity, even if the attributed are perpetually rolling over in their graves with every double tap of Instagram’s beating heart.

SEA. LARA WORTHINGTON BY DARREN MCDONALD

The gravitational push and pull of the moon is such that it sways the tide as it orbits around the earth. For six hours the ocean will creep up the shore, before receding for another six hours, and on and on it goes. Much like the ceaseless lunar allure makes the waves, the siren call of the sea is as constant as it is crisp — a formative blue interlude that reminds us who we are. Darren McDonald shoots Lara Worthington in Sydney, Australia.

STAND FOR SOMETHING – ZIGGY RAMO BY VANESSA SWEDÉRUS, RHYS RIPPER AND GRACE O’NEILL

Ziggy Ramo recorded his year-defining album, Black Thoughts, in 2015 — but he held on to it for five years, told by the music industry that an Australian public so in denial about their own racist past (and present) couldn’t handle its contents. On May 25th, as a global race reckoning began to take shape, he uploaded the album in full —it’s gone on to be dubbed the most important Australian album of 2020. Grace O'Neill spends an hour in conversation with the magnanimous rapper.

MADE UP BY DEREK HENDERSON AND MATILDA DODS

Make up, and the beauty industry when subtracted from narratives of both mass consumerism, and oppressive beauty standards, contains the potential for rebellious lightheartedness. The personal is political, but that does not mean that either can’t be fun. The new identity of the beauty industry is fun, embracing its inherent frivolity and its revolutionary potential as a political force.

The Space Between Us (I hope you swipe what you’re looking for) by Noelle Faulkner

If love is a blanket of darkness that, despite dilated pupils, constricts our sight into a single-track tunnel, floods our brains with stress hormones and turns us into a dizzy mess of preoccupation and restlessness; then intimacy is the light switch.

ESSENTIAL WORK BY DEREK HENDERSON & GRACE O’NEILL

If there’s any kind of creative legacy that marks this moment we’re in, we hope it’s this one: a return to something delicate, understated and familiar.

A MORNING WITH CLARE SMYTH AND HUBOLT BY DARREN MCDONALD

Darren McDonald spends time in the kitchen of Smyth’s first international restaurant, OnCore By Clare Smyth, at Crown Sydney.

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With a focus on photography and film, we celebrate the creative mind, the independent spirit and people with purpose.

SIDE-NOTE PROJECTS – may the best idea win. We work with best-of-breed collaborators to deliver and publish work that is both beautiful and results driven. Rejecting a typical advertising model in favour of content production, SIDE-NOTE acts as a trusted conduit between creator and client.

Within The Big Picture: The Varying Intimacies of Experience by Levon Baird

SIDE-NOTE is a platform that tells stories of style and substance, merging the gap between contemporary culture and fashion. With a focus on photography and film, we celebrate the creative mind, the independent spirit and people with purpose.

SIDE-NOTE PROJECTS – may the best idea win. We work with best-of-breed collaborators to deliver and publish work that is both beautiful and results driven. Rejecting a typical advertising model in favour of content production, SIDE-NOTE acts as a trusted conduit between creator and client.

Within The Big Picture: The Varying Intimacies of Experience by Levon Baird

SIDE-NOTE is a platform that tells stories of style and substance, merging the gap between contemporary culture and fashion.

With a focus on photography and film, we celebrate the creative mind, the independent spirit and people with purpose.