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I'm Nathan Maddigan.

If you're looking for a photographer, a magazine builder, a trainer or a story mentor, then we're going to be great friends.

 

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When you art-trade a part of your wedding photography, and receive something mind-blowingly priceless in return.. @graceslavenart, I love this piece SO much!! You're amazing!!
2017 AIPP Australian Wedding Photographer of the Year Finalist! Huzzah! For the second year in a row, I came runner-up to the big award. This time, I had the highest-scoring portfolio too, which is a new best for me.. The greatest thing though, is actually just seeing my name up there, right next to some of my most favourite artists in the world. Last year it was @danoday and @kellytunney, who are both beautiful intriguing humans, and this year, it was @jimmons who took out the big one, with a set of beautifully crafted pieces. We sat at a table full of loved ones, and by the end of the night, there were so many many trophies scattered across the surface: @angieconnellphotography killed it in the book and pet categories, and Katie K (@heartstoryphotography) took out the family category, and of course James had the wedding category on the table too. And right next to me, @rachelcallander is holding me so tight, and shining so bright, that I'm afraid her shell won't be able to hold her unicorn soul in her body. It was a pretty beautiful experience, and a reminder that we are all artists, and our art matters. Thank you to all my clients who are courageously in love, and to my peers who are so fearlessly innovative. Life is pretty excellent. 😊 #aipp #aipp_official #aippappa #appa2017
To be completely honest, I find it hard to exist in real life, and also stop and document that life in an insta-friendly way. It's not that I don't want to share, I just don't want to stop living, even for the split-seconds it takes to post an update. I'll get there. I'm learning, slowly, that none of it matters, and all of it matters, all at once. I am nothing, and I am everything. At the the same time. Last week, we had our AIPP Professional Photography Awards in Melbourne, and I was the runner-up Australian Professional Wedding Photographer of the Year again! Honored and super-chuffed, but I'll post about that experience tomorrow. Because I also had the opportunity to be a judge at those awards, for the first time, and THAT was the most incredible experience! We reviewed and argued and cried over thousands of images over the weekend, and I felt such a humility and appreciation for the artists who put all their hearts and craft into each image, and then allowed us to critique and judge their work. It takes a certain bravery to enter your work into competitions, and ask for feedback on your art, and I think the photographers of Australia/NZ produced some of the greatest imagery I've ever seen this year. And I love that they'll do it again next year. Turns out art has no limits. It makes me excited to be a photographer. #aipp #appa2017 #aipp_official
Just hanging out on Melbourne rooftops with this unicorn love(r). Turns out wherever I am in the world with her feels like home.
It's Mother's Day over here in Australia, and if you look real carefully, you'll find Alana being both a mumma and a bride in this pic. And rocking it. Here's to all the mums who play so many roles simultaneously in life. You're all amazing humans!
Last night was a bit fun - The #aipp Awards happened, and I took out WA Professional Wedding Photographer of the Year!! Big thanks to the amazing couples I get to photograph, and to the incredible community of creatives that push us all to be our best! Excited and honoured!
Happy 2017! Here's to a year of shining like we're made of stars, and doing impossible and amazing things.
That time just before midnight when the DJ-who-is-also-the-groom kicks the dance floor into overdrive with an epic mix, and masques, and some pretty exceptional guests. #AIPP #APPA Silver award for this one..
This year, I was a finalist for #AIPP Australian Professional Wedding Photographer of the Year, along with two of my favourite others, @danmakepicture, and @kellytunney. And they're actual rockstars. So, it was pretty freaking exciting to be up there with them. This is a snapshot of Jodie+Michael's reception in Thailand, and the image went straight to gold. Because, these guys were amazing, and completely authentic. And, because, limbo.
These days, it feels like whole lifetimes happen in seconds, and entire worlds change in a heartbeat. So many exciting futures to make happen, so many opportunities to self-promote, and it's all so dizzyingly fast. This image says "it's ok to not keep up". It says "we are all skin and breath and tears, and we are amazing". Tomorrow I'll show you some pretty images that did real well in our recent AIPP awards. Today is just a collarbone, at peace with itself.
The whole reason I'm in Italy. Two incredible people decided to be wed, in the most beautiful place in the world, with some of the most amazing others in the world. This was a wedding that was so good for the soul. Now if I can just stay in one place long enough to send them some sneak previews, my weekend would be complete..
@bedandbreakfastaduepassi ! Hands down my most favourite place to stay in all of #ravello. It's also the only place I've stayed. But it's beautiful and it's my favourite.
These arches are everywhere here. Like the locals just wanted to frame the views.
30 hours of transit, lost luggage and a 6am wakeup still can't break the perfection of a day that starts like this. Viva l'Italia! (..aaaand going back to bed. 😁)
The sun was low in the sky when our wheels left the tarmac. But we were also heading west, so we gave chase, our tiny jet plane up against the burning centre of our galaxy. We flew for the horizon, wrapped in the tail lights of a day almost gone, the last warmth of a great lamp destined for someone else's sunrise. We stayed the twilight, maybe for minutes, maybe hours, it made no difference. It was all beauty and colour, and clouds. Eventually our golden wing tips soaked into blues and purples, and then, dark. And we chased on. (Ha! Wine+no sleep+travel = random plane poetry! 😊)
Shot a #combi yesterday, and reminded me of this shot from yesteryear. The ceiling was just like the one I used to sleep in as a kid, with all those tiny dots, like stars, that we'd make up our own constellations in. Good times, Volkswagen, good times.. :)
It's been a while between posts. I blame Christmas, and beautiful people distracting me with face-to-face conversation. And this spanky new workspace we're slowly creating. With amazing humans like @jessicawyld, @shoshkruger, @catchlightpics, @andrew__c and @mayflyphotography sharing the desks, I'm pretty freaking excited about 2016! (And just quietly, I'm kind of in love with my mustard wingback.. Think I'll sleep here tonight.. ^_^)
It's #Christmas! Around here, we like Christmas to last half the year, and we like trees on the ceiling.
leandri + kallen + a canola field in #york. (thanks @niicolee_jd for the coffee and directions!) #weddingweek2016
Moonwalking..