INTERVIEW 006: Brydie Mack

A.K.A. WolfcubWolfcub; on process, editing, testing and shooting in the locations of her dreams.

Thank you so much to all of you who have answered the survey this week; because of all of you I have an incredible list of suggestions for people of note to reach out to for conversations on photography. With these talks, I’m always seeking to dig out pearls of information that you will feel useful; what their process looks like, what their sets feel like, how they got to where they are and where they hope they’re going. And this week’s interviewee is no different.

Like our other interviewees, Brydie Mack (a.k.a. WolfcubWolfcub on Instagram) has a huge following, who have been with her since the dawn of social media and even before. Over the past 15 years the Australian photographer has been a huge influence, inspiring hundreds of photographers to pick up a film camera for the first time with her emotive images of 90s-inspired nostalgic blues, Mediterranean-soaked hair and sandy skin. So what does someone who’s work has graced a thousand moodboards do day to day? How does she structure her business and what’s it like on her sets? I was keen to know, so after months of back and forth trying to find a time, we finally sat down. Chatting for hours about life, photography, process and more.

(A note: when I say we spoke for hours, we genuinely did, so this is a long one. I’ve managed to cut our three-hour ramble into an hour and a half so if we cut out and move to another subject in a couple of places that’s because i’ve had to cull 10 minutes of us going massively off-topic. Forgive my editing skills - one day I’ll get a proper producer.)

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed recording it. Any questions you might have, please feel free to ask them below in case Brydie has a moment to reply to them at some point between her travels.

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