I met Hugh Stewart ( INSTAGRAM ) in Paris 16 years ago and we got along quite well. He and his partner Emma had a baby daughter, her name was Matilda, and I recall that at the time they left Paris he had asked me to pick up a plaster of Paris they had done of their daughter's tiny arm.
Hugh and I stayed in contact and occasionally I would bump into him and I had asked him on several occasions if I could either use his services to shoot our customers in their workplaces or else to get my own portrait done.
Hugh has worked on many different film sets and been sent all over the world to photograph celebrities from Johnny Cash, Clint Eastwood, Robert Hughes, Leonardo Di Caprio and many many others - they are not hard to find on google. But it is still life photography that also gets me. He just does it so well and he has this style about his photos, a certain rustic nature about them, slightly muted, well worn, something, akin to his own demeanour, idiosyncratic voice, worn shirts of muted hues, a dishevelled look, but nonetheless clean. Slightly smudged spectacles that could do with a clean.
It finally became possible for me to get photograph myself, because he has opened up a new service just off Queen Street in Woollahra. I am happy to say that after 16 years I finally got to sit in front of his camera and I am extremely happy with the result.
Have a look at his Instagram and if you are Sydney side, or near Byron Bay, you can catch him in his respective studios for a sitting.
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