Manx Minx

21/11/2024

Don't Go Into the Library 😲❤️
Alberto Ríos - 1952-

11/09/2024

Be gentle with that tender heart of yours.

It may be holding a years worth of grief inside it.

Be caring with all those parts of you that feel life’s tender moments, childhood pains and unmet emotions.

Take yourself out into the gathering light and breathe a bright ember into the very centre of you, into your hearts red soft middle, holding yourself in love and warmth.

Wake your heart slowly, allowing it all to be felt, allowing yourself to create space in which to rest and to breathe.

Let the coming light light up your bones and remind you of the gold that is held deep within you.

~ Brigit Anna McNeill
www.linktr.ee/brigitannamcneill

Art by Alice Dorn
www.linktr.ee/alicedorn

25/08/2024

Hank and Elizabeth…
I think it’s worth me putting this kind of explanation up every now and again.
I get asked, “but what if they don’t want their picture taken?”
Yes, what if?
What if I take someone’s photo and then show them and then they ask me to delete it? Well, then I delete it in front of them and no one gets hurt and the world carries on.
Then the opposite question needs to be asked… what if I didn’t take the photo at all and the people in my photos never have a chance to see them?
To me that is such a bigger sadness…
Candid photography is such a unique part of life and without it a lot of moments in culture would be lost.
So many beautiful moments, I always think about the famous V Day photo in Times Square of the sailor kissing the girl. That moment would be lost to time without Candid photography.
This brings me back to Hank and Elizabeth… now I didn’t ask to take their photo, because if I did that moment would have been ruined. But when I showed them they were chuffed! And that made my day.
“The moment would be ruined”. I live by that when I am photographing. Don’t ruin the moment. Let it play out… just observe.
I often think about people 100 years from now looking at my photos like I look at photos from 100 years ago… in awe.
That’s why I love being a photographer. My photos, my books, my prints will all outlive me and anyone who reads this post.
They will be in libraries forever and ever… and ever. I feel like my part in Melbourne is to document.
I’ve been doing it for almost 10 years now and would dare say I have taken more photos on the streets of Melbourne than anyone else.
A decade of Melbourne life. A decade of my life dedicated to it.
Anyway, thanks Hank and Elizabeth.
I look forward to seeing you In a Humans In Melbourne book soon and I hope you love knowing that 100 years from now there will be people seeing your photograph saying, “Oh look, he is such a gentleman… and they’re holding hands! I love them!”

10/07/2024

12/11/2023

'Ollie'
Digital painting.
From the 'doglings' series.

18/08/2023

Nailed it.

art via Liz Fosslien

06/05/2023

01/10/2022

24/09/2022

Seafood Saturday 🐟🦐🍤🐙🦞🦑❤️

21/09/2022

10/09/2022

By total coincidence, standing right next to each other at the St. Louis Art Fair are “Fresh Prince” and “Queen Elizabot II”.