the-affair is a brand that creates beautiful conceptual t-shirts for the intelligent consumer tired of the cute-sy threadless aesthetic. Its the love child of myself and Dangerous Dave Black.
With no physical presence on the high-street, we began with the simple insight that fitting rooms have full length mirrors for a reason. The website was thus created to mimic the actual experience of trying the shirts on.
Awarded the FWA Site of the Day 29.03.2008
Cast your mind back to the old days, when 2.0 was something you’d find on the side of a box of software. Remember, before Flickr? When having your photos online was anything but easy?
This triptych captures the hysteria generated by the mass-media ‘war’ propaganda immediately following September 11, 2001. The single protagonist floats through an isolated cityscape, conscious that everyone else has already fled, and confronted only by his own shadow.
Exhibited April 2002, ‘Byte Me’ (Group Show), Phototechnica, Sydney.
These seven images are a small selection of a much larger series completed in 2000, whilst I was living in Barcelona. Though many of these images are not from Spain, they reflect my own search for identity whilst assimilating into another culture.
