BADFELLA

A MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL x SHANGRILA FILM x subject@ PRODUCTION

"The more we know our identities are visible, the less likely we are to act unconventionally. This idea is subverted, when our visible and hidden identities slowly merge together."
Captured by SHANGRILA FILM, and creative directed in collaboration with subject@.

Models: Kanu (Instagram: @kanu3_), Kenley, Anthony (Instagram: @sub.ject_@)


BADFELLA is a black and white photo series shot in collaboration with subject@ and SHANGRILA FILM, produced under MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL.
The collection began as something rawer - portraits conceived off-axis, built around the visual language of a rockstar image. As the work developed, the aesthetic pulled toward something cleaner and more controlled. What didn't change was the masks.
Every subject in BADFELLA wears a full head covering. On the A-Side of this series, models faces are visible. Shot in an alleyway in Sydney, the subjects exist in a space that is neither fully public nor private - an environment that mirrors the logic of the masks themselves. The name carries the same tension: a "badfella" is a character before it is a person, a performance of identity rather than an expression of it.
The motion in the collection is introduced through the camera rather than the subject. At the moment of capture, the camera is physically twisted sharply and deliberately. The resulting motion blur is baked into the still image itself, not applied in post. Within an otherwise composed and controlled frame, these moments of directional blur function as the only thing in the image that refuses to stay still.





Dutch angle black and white portrait of two figures in a Sydney street at night with camera twist motion blur and neon light streaks, experimental urban portrait photography, BADFELLA, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white portrait of a figure on a stairwell with fluorescent light bloom and motion blur, urban conceptual photography Sydney, BADFELLA, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white portrait of a figure wearing a bucket hat and glasses seated behind metal railings against a brick wall, urban conceptual portrait photography Sydney, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL
Tilted angle black and white photograph of a coin-masked figure and a dark silhouetted figure in a Sydney alleyway, surreal conceptual portrait photography, BADFELLA B-SIDE, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white fisheye lens photograph of a bubble-masked figure with multiple reaching hands extending toward the camera, camera rotation blur, surreal alleyway portrait, BADFELLA B-SIDE, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white portrait of two figures in dark coats and hats leaning forward against a roller door in a Sydney alleyway, dark street portrait photography, BADFELLA A-Side, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white close-up photograph of discarded cloth on wet Sydney street pavement at night, urban documentary detail photography, NINETEEN, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL
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