Johnston Street Prints are online!
After several months battling the postage system I've finally got everything I need to start making my own photo prints! You can find all the available options & details at the new Shop part of the website, as well as a list of all bands I've taken photos of at the bottom of this article.
All my prints are one of a kind, never to be re-printed with shipping included in the cost and a further 20% off if you're getting a photo of yourself or a friend for a gift (make sure to hit me up for the discount code).
I wanted to put all the important info at the top of this article but I've also written a bit about my motivation behind photography and prints below, feel free to have a read.
If you haven't heard me rant about it before; Jack and I were born in Geraldton, Western Australia. As our dad was a fisherman we spent large parts of our childhood growing up on Big Pigeon Island off the coast of Western Australia. The months that we'd spend there each year during the fishing season were some of the best times of my life, even though it was so long ago now not a week goes by that I don't think back to those days and smile.
For our birthdays last year Dad sent us each a framed photo of our island home.
As soon as I opened the box I was overwhelmed, I don't have the best memory in the world but it is crazy what comes back when there's something visual to prompt you. Swimming laps around the island, getting stalked by a tiger shark, playing pool at the pub while all the girls drove us insane with tap dancing practice, so many wild times.
Over the past 3 years i've taken 180,000 photos of bands, friends, & family across hundreds of different concerts & festivals all over the country. When I think about what motivates me to spend so much money on cameras, lenses, concert tickets, flights and so on I think about the day after when I load all of the photos onto my computer and get to look back on all these great memories i've managed to capture.
This year has made it pretty obvious that these times don't necessarily last forever.
Eventually friends move cities, bands split up, venues close, and as we get older these fond memories slowly fade into our subconscious, waiting for an opportunity to come back to us.
It sounds very preachy but this is why I really enjoy photography and especially being able to share it with the people I care about. These truly are the days of our lives and sometimes we take for granted just how lucky we are to have all of these fun experiences.
I saw Pistol Peaches at their first ever concert at The Reverence Hotel's Halloween show back in 2017. I took a bunch of photos as usual and also filmed & uploaded one of their songs. The next day I saw that one of the band members mum had shared my video, she was so proud of her daughter and so happy to be able to share the video with her friends and family who couldn't make the show, who were all also super proud of her.
The feeling I got from seeing that post is far more satisfying than any compliment, award or recognition I've ever received. I'm so honored to be able to preserve and share these great moments, to make a genuinely positive mark on someones life makes me so happy.
This also plays into why I've chosen to never mass-produce any of my photos myself.
Again it sounds really preachy but there's just something magical to me about having something one of a kind, a truly personalized item to cherish forever. I put a lot of time and effort into the cataloging, editing & printing process as I want every print to do justice to these great moments and look good enough to keep around for a long time. I think no less of the people who do though, it makes perfect sense when you've managed to create a iconic photo and you deserve all the credit and recognition that comes with that.
THANK YOU to everyone who stuck through reading this to the end, whose complimented me on my photos, shared them around, attended my exhibitions and supported my photography & Johnston Street in general. It's been a really rewarding journey and I'm lucky to have met so many great people & made so many friends since we moved here 4 years ago.
Although times are tough in Melbourne right now we're not going anywhere and you can bet your bottom dollar the moment concerts open back up i'll be in the front snapping away again.
Have a great weekend and I'll see y'all in 6 weeks! - Bill
LIST OF THE 413 BANDS I'VE TAKEN PHOTOS OF 10/7/2020 (CTRL-F / Find in Page if you're looking for a specific band name)
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2 Stroke
50-50s
A Basket of Mammoths
A. Swayze & The Ghosts
A.U.S
Aaron Gocs
Affection
Afterburner
Amyl & The Sniffers
ARSE
Auntie Leo & The Backstabbers
Bad Dreems
Bad Taste
Baker Boy
Bananagun
Bass Drum of Death
Being Beta
Bench Press
Biff
BIN
Birdcage
Bitch Diesel
Bleach
Blockade
Blood Moon
Boat Show
Body Corporate
Body Maintenance
Body Parts
Bone Graft
Bones & Jones
Brad Pot
Braincell
Break Through
Bug Hunt
Bugs
C.O.F.F.I.N
Cable Ties
Cakefight
Cakewalk
Calm Collected
Carcinoid
Cement Shoes
Cereal Killer
Charging Stallion
Chess
Chillers
Chinese Burns Unit
City Rose
Civic
Clamm
Claws & Organs
Cloacas
Clowns
Club Med
Coffin Wolf
Cold Heat
Comedier
Concrete Lawn
Contaminated
Cosmic Kahuna
Courtney Barnett
Cracodile
Crash Material
Creep Diets
Crocodylus
Culte
Danny Walsh Banned
Dark Water
Deaf Wish
Deafheaven
Deceptive Bends
Denise Le Menice
Dental Plan
Department
Desarmados
Destrends
Dexy Oscillator
Dicklord
Die! Die! Die!
Diploid
Dirty Fences
Dirty Juice Boy
Disco Junk
Distorta
DJ Amy
Dog Fight
Don Bosco
Dr Colossus
Dr Sures Unusual Practice
Dr. Colossus
DriveTime Commute
Drunk Mums
Dumb Punts
Durry
Easy Browns
Eat-Man
Ecca Vandal
Eggy
El Tee
Electric Mud
Electric Toothbrush
Elsie Lange
Empat Lima
Empty Gesture
Enzyme
Erin Will Be Mad
Eternal Smoko
Exhaust World
Eye Seaweed
Eyesores
Fall And Resist
Ferla
Ferocious X
Flight To Dubai
Floodlights
Flydrop
Forever Renter
Foxing
Foxtrot
Frenzal Rhomb
Friends
Front End Loader
Frontsides Backsides
Future Boys
Future Suck
Fuzz Meadows
Fuzzsucker
Gamjee
Garlic Nun
Gee Seas
GELD
Gentle Ben And His Shimmering Hands
Girl Germs
Glitoris
Glomesh
Go Get Mum
Go-Go Sapien
Gonzo
Grewsum Tewsum
Grey Mantis
Grim Rhythm
Grindhouse
Guffman
Gutless
Hachiku
Hackitt
Hank Wood
Hannah Kate
Hanny J
Haram
Harlott
Hävittäjät
Hearts & Rockets
Hedy Lamarr
Hellebores
Hexdebt
Hideous Sun Demon
Holy Serpent
Homewrecker
Hoon
Horace Bones
Hoss
Hot Sludge Fundae
House Deposit
I Am Duckeye
I Spit On Your Gravy
Idiot Box
Immigrant Union
Intrusion
Iron Hawk
Israeli Chicks
Jarrow
Jeff Rosenstock
Julia Shapiro
Jungle Breed
Jungle Cuffs
Kaipora
Kaitlin Keegan
Kamikaze Trio
Keggin
Kill Dirty Youth
King Cig
Krul
Lai
Layla
Lazertits
Lifelock
Lincoln Le Fevre & The Insiders
Lions And Lambs
Liquid Face
Little Elizabeth
Lo!
Local Coward
Loobs
Los Chicos
Los Tones
Lost Talk
Loveboner
Lubulwa
Lucy Waldron & Tommy Sloane
LVIV
Macros
Mad Macka
Mclusky
Meat
Meatbeaters
Mesa Cosa
Mid City
Misc
Miss June
Moaning Lisa
Mod Vigil
Moler
Moody Beaches
Moon Lover
Moonlover
Mother And Son
Muzzle
Mystery Guest
Naughty Naughty & The Good Boys
Necrot
Negative Gears
Nein
Nick Nuisance & The Delinquents
No Future
No Sister
NoLa
Noughts
Odette
Overstayer
Painters And Dockers
Palm
Parsnip
Party Dozen
Party Pest
Party Vibez
Peeping Tom
Perspex
Pinch Points
Pisschrist
Pist Idiots
Pistol Peaches
Polish
Posessed Mum
Posh Boys
Potion
Power
Prehistoric Douche
Private Function
Pseudo Mind Hive
Psychobabel
Pterygium
Pting
Public High
Publique
Punter
Purple Duck
Radolescents
Ramdigital
Rathead
Rayza
Reaper
Red Lotus
Red Sea
Regurgitator
Religious Observerance
Remote Controlled
Repo Man
Rhysics
Rinda & Marya
RMFC
Rob Casino
Rocket Science
Romero
ROT TV
ROT TV Promo
RVG
S.M. Jenkins
S.P Twin
Sadults
Satanic Togas
Scab Baby
Scraggers
Scum Raid
Sex Drive
Shady Nasty
Shane & The Dog Cunts
Shanty Tramp
Ships Piano
Shit Bitch
Shonen Knife
Sick Thoughts
Silverlight Shadows
Sistema En Decadencia
Skull Fork
Slag Queens
Slim Jefferies
Slush
Smarts
Smooch
Sneaky Sound System
Somertised
Sophisticated Dingo
Space Boys
Spawn
Speed Week
Spew Balloon
Spike The River
Spike Vincent
Spiral Perm
Stella Donnelly
Stiff Richards
Stone Witches
Straightjacket Nation
Suppressant
Surfbort
Swab
Sweet Gold
Sweet Whirl
Sydney Trip
Synthetics
Talc
Tall Relatives
Tankerville
Terrible Signal
Thatchers Snatch
The All Seeing Hand
The Attention Seekers
The Bleeding Flares
The Braves
The Breadmakers
The Buoys
The Credits
The Creeks
The Dacios
The Darrans
The Deadlips
The Dianas
The Dixies
The Dorks
The Faculty
The Fangin' Felines
The Fuckups
The Garden
The Gurdies
The Hard-Ons
The Ians
The Living Eyes
The Meanies
The Neptune Power Federation
The Nugs
The Pinheads
The Pink Tiles
The Rebel
The Schizophonics
The Skids
The Tremors
The Unknowns
The Vee Bees
The Wameki
Thee Cha Cha Chas
These New South Whales
Thibault
Thomy Sloane & Lucy Waldrone
Thug Mills
Tina Growls
Toehider
Tol
Tombeau
Tony Dork
Totally Unicorn
Traffik Island
Trepaneringsritualen
Troldhaugen
Tropical Fuckstorm
Trouble Boys
Trucks
True Defective
Tsugnarly
Tuff Mustard
Tyrannamen
Uber Alles
Ubik
Uncle Geezer
Undercover Crops
Unholy Trip
Ute Root
V
Vajazzle
Velvet Elevator
Vintage Crop
Violet Mercy
Viral Eyez
Voiid
Walks
Warped
Wasterr
Wavevom
Wax Chattels
West Thebarton
White Dog
Wicked City
Woodys Bar
Wurst Nurse
Yeah Dont Care
Year 6 Disco
Zeahorse
Zodd
Zombeaches
Zuma
Zyanose