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gavin rea - photographer (NYC)

GOOD GIRLS LOVE BAD BOYS.........who are putting Australia on the fashion map .. ....

About Me


Kathryn Eisman May 2008 NYC - photo: Gavin Rea
Watch the above video to see how I got the shot below of Samantha Wills in Time square NYC!!
Samantha Wills - shot by Gavin Rea


My name is Gavin Rea (Ray) & I take pictures! I am an Australian photographer originally from Bondi Beach, Sydney but now based in New York City. Simply put, I'm looking to shoot unforgettable images. I specialise in fashion, body and beauty.
Yes, Yes Yall! WWW.GAVINREA.COM - check out my online portfolio!

Self Portrait, Lake Conjola, NSW, Australia 2007
My mattress, minus the sheets and pillows!
Me, my Max Biaggi scooter (G DOGG) & my eldest nephew Alexander

My 1969 Valiant Safari Station wagon - keep an eye out for it in the Australian movie "Black Balloon"! (Photo by Gemma Ward)
I'd rather be surfing! The G-Train laying tracks, Bondi Beach, Dec, 2006 (Photo by Kelly Slater)
Zooma Beach Surfing

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Self Portrait - New York City Feb, 2006 (Yes thats snow!.....and whoever lost their Burberry scalf at New York Fashion week.....thanks it came in real handy! ha ha)
Me on a shoot in LA - and the final result...Amanda looks stunning!!
The amazingly beautiful Miss Miranda Kerr, Next NYC July 2006 Photo: Gavin Rea
This is a networking and friendship site for me. I hope we can build relationships. Contact me if you have any questions.

My Interests



Making out, Ranch Dressing, Getting single red roses from strangers, Rehab, Fishing with the Blonde Cobra, Learning Salsa, Valiants, Being an energy god, women, the smell of surfboard wax, eating smoked salmon, Yamaha Scooters, Banana bread, Mangos, Surfing, fashion photography, road trips, buying plane tickets on a whim, NYC rooftops, sarcasm, eye contact, slow dancing, whisky, cocktail cigarettes, polaroids, playing records, bicycle rides late at night or along the beach at low tide, crooked teeth, picture books, ice cream, black coffee, chong, learning new things, backyard boxing, spontaneity, firm handshakes, collecting old cameras, being an artist, best man speeches, gin & tonic in a tall glass, sunrises, sunsets, walks on the beach after dark, arm wrestling, bench pressing 300lbs and I love dropping in on you at your home break and then getting shacked!

I'd like to meet:

Black Elvis




Fellow Blaster enthusiasts!!
Would love to collaborate with other talented artists dedicated to their form of higher creative self expression. Designers, Directors, Artists, Stylists, Musicians, Actors, H & M-up artists, Editors, Photographers, Agencies, Models and like minded souls who are inspired by art and beauty.

(Caterina, Temple, Jade & Marti - Chic models, Sydney Photos: Gavin Rea)

This is a photo by Terry Richardson, but if youve got legs like this, drive a beat up 911 Carrera 3.2 Porsche and have a pet spider monkey call me........I think I love you!

Shona Joy Catalogue 2007 (Aysha - Pulse models, Sydney Photos: Gavin Rea
Note to self....buy new shirt!!(Aysha - Pulse models, Sydney Photo: Shona Joy)
Currently in NEW YORK CITY!

Saskia Nielsen - NYC Sept 2007 Hair by Lydia O'Carroll and Make up by Diane Da Silva

Music:

Motor Head, IAMX, The Pixies, Faith No More, The Knife, The Cult, Sherbert, The Sounds, Alice in Chains, Happy Mondays, Cameo, Lil Jon, Johnny Cash, Prince, Peaches, Sonic Youth, Shaky Hands, David Bowie, Cat Power, Breeders, Black Flag, Kiss, Elvis, Public Enemy, The Prodigy, Sugar Hill Gang, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Goldfrapp, YeahYeahYeahs, Scissor Sisters, Guns n Roses, Lou Reed, Danny Tenaglia, BlocParty, TV on the Radio, Spiderbait, Leftfield, Dirty Sanchez, People Under the Stairs, AC/DC, Chromeo, The Hard Ons, Weird Al Yankovic

Movies:

Cant buy me love, Basketball Diaries, Elf, Mad Max, Suburban Mayhem, Shooter, Pans Labarinth, Bobby, The Searchers, Vertigo, The Unforgiven, 8 1/2, Search for Animal Chin, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Heat, Omega man, Purple Rain, Midnight Cowboy, Blow Up, Platoon, Blade Runner, Adaptation, Apocalypse Now, Lost Highway, Tootsie, Blue Velvet, 5th Element, Dog Day Afternoon, The Great Gatsby, Viking Quest, Barbarella, Animal House, Rushmore, The Graduate, Touching the void, In the Name of the Father, Black Robe, Buffalo 66, Donnie Darko, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Ghostbusters, Lost in Translation, Virgin Suicides, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Scarface, Resevoir Dogs, Star Wars 8, Sin City, City of God, Fight Club, Godfather Trilogy, American Psycho, Stand By Me, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Do the Right thing, Malcom X, Jungle Fever, Last Tango in Paris, 9-1/2 weeks, Pulp Fiction, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Casablanca, La Dolce Vita, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Stealing Beauty, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lock-Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Beautiful Mind, Erin Brockovich, Gladiator, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects, Like Water for Chocolate, Napoleon Dynamite, Three Kings, The Night we called it a Day, Two Hands, Wild at Heart, Wizard of Oz

Television:

!......drug of a Nation!, House, Boxing, Ultimate Fighting, Entourage - especially Johnny "Drama" Chase, The Twilight Zone (originals - 6 fingers was a great episode), COPS

Books:

After finishing my MBA I never want to read another text book again in my life!!........reading now consists of more looking ie. Picture books - Art Books, Wine lists + beer bottle labels,....however did enjoy The Alchemist, Catcher In The Rye, The Tipping Point, Alice In Wonderland, Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, Juergen Tellers Go see's, Kate the Kate Moss book, A Gun for Hire Helmut Newton, The Factory Years Andy Warhol, Basquiat A Quick Killing in Art, How to make a killing in fashion photography by Gavin Rea, Milperra: The Road to Justice, Guns 'n' Rose' or basically any Les Norton or Cliff Hardy detective stories...

Heroes:

Suzanne Gai, Kate Moss, Bob Richardson, Helmut Newton, Peter Beard, Richard Prince, Ned Kelly, Charlie Murphy, Rick James, Artists, writers, musicians...surfers in their fifties and sixties...and those who can draw stuff good.

My Blog

Actors Headshots

WHAT YOUR SESSION INCLUDES:- Two Retouched Images * - Professional Hair and Makeup Artist - Master CD (with retouched photos & entire session / digital negatives) - One Hour of Shooting (as many photo...
Posted by gavin rea - photographer (NYC) on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:35:00 PST

So you want me to take your pic???

Inquire within. I do not shoot for free but my rates are very reasonable.Gavhttp://www.gavinrea.com ...
Posted by gavin rea - photographer (NYC) on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:15:00 PST

Take a visit to Bondi.tv

Check out the local Bondi talent onwww.bondi.tvpeace & luv to Bill
Posted by gavin rea - photographer (NYC) on Fri, 04 May 2007 02:56:00 PST

This Guy is Awesome - Bill Henson!!!

Bill Henson is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. His powerful and edgy photographs approach both the painterly and the cinematic, bringing together the formal and classical with the gri...
Posted by gavin rea - photographer (NYC) on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:29:00 PST

Bob Richardson

Bob Richardson incorporated sex, drugs and violence into his photos, reflecting a turbulent period in history and creating images that were more about people than about fashion. He was one of a genera...
Posted by gavin rea - photographer (NYC) on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:06:00 PST

Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton is the doyen of fashion..s dark side, a photographer who has fundamentally changed the terms of the fashion image. Over the last forty years he has brought a unique mixture of style, sex...
Posted by gavin rea - photographer (NYC) on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:06:00 PST

Richard Prince

Richard Prince, born 1949 in the U.S controlled Panama Canal Zone is an American painter and photographer. Trained as a figure painter, Prince began creating collages containing photographs in 1975. H...
Posted by gavin rea - photographer (NYC) on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:47:00 PST

Peter Beard

Visionary artist and photographer, world traveler and explorer, champion of wildlife conservation and brilliant society character, Peter Beard is impossible to fit into an easy category. His life expe...
Posted by gavin rea - photographer (NYC) on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:42:00 PST