Between you and me

Promotional shoot for the Art of Fashion

http://www.artoffashion.org

A fashion shoot for the Speech jewellery line

Styling and jewellery by Michael Mercanti

www.ssspeech.com

A caravan camp found in the countryside of west Wales

Hong Kong is an experience. Overwhelming and enthralling - it is a city where one can wonder and truly find themselves lost. I was lucky enough to stop over there for a few days on my way to Australia, and spent any spare time when I wasn’t devouring bowls of noodle soup with my camera in hand.

We drove to an unmarked point on the highway outside Tofino, British Columbia. Walked into the trees until we came to a small path leading up and up. Hiked for two hours up into the mountains, through knee deep mud and fallen trees. We started finding engine parts, the fuselage, scraps of rusted metal pockmarked among the trees like broken toys thrown by an upset child.

At the last stretch we look up and see the tail stretching out above our horizon. We climb the steepest part and revel the crashed WWII Canso bomber. Crashed so high and so far that it was left to wait, unclaimed and unburied.

Halfway between the forest and the sky.

A fashion story

Styled by Michael Mercanti

Featured in the show "Shadowplay" at Carte Blanche in Toronto

Travelling through Fremantle, Australia we took a chance and went exploring through Fremantle Prison. The prison was built in the 1850’s and closed only as recently as 1991 where convicts were still imprisoned in almost medieval conditions.

Talking to one of the guides who seemed to have an almost uncanny knowledge of prison life, we asked him if he used to work in the jail. He turned to us and said in a brisk military tone, “There are only two kinds of people who come back. Those who served here, and those who guarded here. Next question?”