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“Minimalism is our thing, and we are moving more
and more towards that. I would love to be involved

with an advertising campaign like a sports, clothing
or accessories brand and do a really cool shoot.”

“I stopped working when I had my two girls and I think the most important element in photography
that’s when I started painting. I only recently picked is composition. You have to understand what you’re
it up again, in the last five or six years,” she said. photographing, what is your vision and what you
want to achieve with this photograph.
“Lucy studies architecture in Melbourne. I guess I am
kind of living through her, not having finished my “You can fly a drone and you can get so much into
architecture degree. I love working as a team with her, your frame, like sweeping landscapes which are
as we are very similar in our tastes and vision and we beautiful, but that’s not our vision. Our photographs
both have an eye for design and composition. are more about art and design.”
“Lucy is currently working on her thesis, so I am
doing most of the photography and the editing THE BIRTH OF AIR BARE
for Air Bare. She is still very much involved and I
couldn’t do it without her.” When they decided to give their photography a name,
Lucy was looking for something punchy, short and
unique. Sarah registered the business name, started a
IT’S CALLED COMPROMISE website and Air Bare was born. And the result of the
first project? Well, the first prints were purchased by
One of the duo’s most iconic photographs is of a girl an editor at the Washington Post!
sitting in a pool ring on the basketball court in Port
Douglas. Their journey and success didn’t stop there. In
March 2021, a couple of months after Sarah and
“In 2019 Lucy took a gorgeous picture with her phone Lucy posted the pool ring photo on their Instagram
of a friend floating on a pool ring in a swimming pool account, they received a message from the Boston
in Tuscany. I just loved the photo and I decided to Drone Film Festival. “They asked us if we would like
paint it,” Sarah said. to enter one of our photographs into the competition
“Featured in my house in Port Douglas, I still enjoy in the architecture category and we won it.
looking at every day. With my newfound interest “Not long after that, while I was scrolling through
in drone photography, it became my inspiration for Facebook, I saw the Capture Magazine’s Australasia’s
one of our first projects, as I wondered if I could Top Emerging Photographers’ competition. I decided
recreate the scene on the local basketball court. With to enter the competition in the single shot category
the main prop now purchased and a cute matching and we won that one too.
handbag borrowed, I asked a friend to lay in the pool
ring while reading the Port Douglas magazine and “When we were then shortlisted for the Siena (Drone)
the handbag carefully placed next to her. The poor 2021 Photo Awards, in the category People and the
thing it was so hot that day too, but she took the Australian Photography Awards, Open/Illustrative
challenge in her stride.” we just couldn’t believe the run of success we were
enjoying.”
“The girl in the pool ring should be somewhere
beautiful, at the beach or in a pool, but instead she More recently, the mother-daughter power team were
finds herself on a basketball court”. With the chaos contacted by German publisher teNeues to feature
caused by the pandemic she needs to adjust, find in a high end coffee table book about minimalism
her balance, hence we aptly named the photo, “IT’S in photography. “There are only 15 photographers
CALLED COMPROMISE”” worldwide who are included in this publication and
so we feel very honoured,” Sarah said.
COMPOSITION “To be honest it all still feels very surreal, we only
started 18 months ago, I don’t quite understand
“My approach to photography is similar to when what has happened. It has been whirlwind, but a
I start a painting, you need to decide on your wonderful one”
composition, perspective, framing, colours and tones.

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