The latest edition of Portrait magazine, published by the National Portrait Gallery, features an article on black+white magazine. Article author and Assistant Curator of the Gallery, Penny Grist, recalls the impact the magazine had on her as a student. In the article she talks to some of the magazine’s contributing photographers, and the celebrities they shot. Given the magazine was such a large part of my life for so many years, I felt it would be remiss of me not to mention the article. Although black+white is no longer with us, Grist’s article proves it’s not forgotten. The printed copies may be becoming rarer, but the portraits within its pages live on as a record of the spirit and times of the mid-90s and early noughties.

My first building plaque (copy only). Thanks to Creative Director Anthony Battaglia at BoxTM for the gig, and to developers Traders in Purple. To see The Scarborough in the flesh you’ll have to visit the Redcliffe Peninsula, which was discovered by explorer Matthew Flinders in 1799. It was where the Bee Gees lived for a bit in the 50s, and today it’s the new South Eastern Queensland real estate hotspot, according to my sources!