ABOUT KIM

My Italian mother, a housewife who always wanted to be a Hollywood actress .At 78 she still watches late night gangster movies at 2 or 3am.

My dad used to be perpetually shooting on a super 8 and I thought it was normal.

I lived and went to school in Tuscany, spent 2 years in a 13th century Tuscan school , ended up with the same teacher as my mother and father.

In 1980 I  saw Paul Weller on T.V and decided to call my self a “ MOD”.

A teenager obsessed with wearing strictly black and white clothing  -60’s British “Mod” style, they  nicknamed me‘Two Tone Tonelli’.

My obsession with anything british pop culture was legendary.In 1989 I followed my passion for sixties rock and roll all the way to London ,where i felt right at home. I established a dynamic career that kept me away from home for almost a decade. My photography has been a passport into so many lives my  work has taken her to over 80 cities world-wide.

Im passionate about people.When I shoot portraits I feel like I'm holding up a mirror to the person ,I love drawing out character.Ill always be interested in what makes you tick.

My music  photography work has been featured in every major music publication in England and Australia.Including photographing legends like Pavarotti, Schumacher to Bono to Oasis.

AWARDS

  • National Youth Media Awards. -1st place -2000

  • Rolling  Stone Magazine 2003

  • 'In your face”  TMLP 1 - Landmark  Education - Brunswick st 2004

  • RMIT class of  `85 Reunion Goya  Galleries 2005

  • Theses Days 2021

  • 'In  your face”  TMLP 2  Landmark  Education - Brunswick st 2017

  • National  Portrait  Gallery 2021 Finalist - The  Living  memory  2021

  • Ballarat  Biennale  “No 1 Michael Gudinski”2021

BOOKS

  • ‘A day in the  life “ of Year 2000

  • “Brunswick st” the book

  • Rainbows and Lollipops.

FILM SETS

  • The  spider and the fly

  • Bushido

  • Crimson

  • Dr Robert

  • Aliens  Sex Fiend

LIVE  PERFORMANCES

  • Bonsai - War  Child - Pavarotti

  • Royal Albert hall 30 Paul Weller performances

CLIENTS

  • EMI U/K

  • Universal Music Group

  • Sony U/K

  • Warners U/K

  • Polydor  U/K

  • Go !Discs U/K

  • Rolling stone

  • Guitar World New York

  • Gutter word  Aust

  • Zillo magazine - Germany

  • Q Magazine

  • Smash Hits  London

  • No1- London

  • Vox

  • Select

  • NME

  • Melody maker

  • DJ magazine

  • Mojo magazine

  • Good weekend

  • The  Guardian

  • The Times

  • The  Age

  • The  Herald

  • Grey group

  • BBBC music

  • GQ

  • Jay jays

  • Jeans west

  • The independent

  • TAC

  • Quantas

  • RACV

  • Rio Tinto

  • AMP

  • Target

  • Campaign palace

  • Smart advertising

  • Jarrah Music

FESTIVALS

  • Glastonbury

  • Phoenix

  • Tea In The Park

  • EuroRock  Festival - France

  • Reading

  • Park life

  • BST Hyde Pk

  • Splash !

  • All Points East

  • BBC Radio 1`s Big Weekend

  • TRNSMT Festival

  • Isle of white festive

  • Leeds festival

  • Bestival

  • Wireless festival

  • Download Festival

  • Rewire.

CELEBRITIES

  • Pavarotti

  • The Who

  • Schumacher

  • Bono

  • Paul Weller

  • Led Zeppelin

  • Rolling Stones

  • Blondie

  • Blur

  • Oasis

  • Ben  Harper

  • Justin Timberlake

  • Jet

  • Wu Tang  Clan

  • Def jam

  • Elvis  Costello

  • David  Bowie

  • The Who

  • Ben Folds

  • Prodigy

  • Robert Smith The Cure

  • Jeff Buckley

  • Sound Garden

  • Manic Street preachers

  • Radio head

  • The  Charlatans

  • Pulp

  • Super grass

  • Stereo phonics

  • Travis

  • The  Stone  roses

  • Happy Mondays

  • Phil Collins

  • Bruce Springsteen

  • Iron maiden

  • Cher

  • Boyzone

  • N-sync

  • The Blue Tones

  • Suede

  • Kula Shaker

  • Texas

  • The  Chemical Brothers

  • Underworld

  • Leftfield

Kim says;    

In 1975, my 10-year-old older brother took our family photos group. Our prints came back from the chemist with our heads cut off!

“Can I take the family shots instead” I asked my Dad.

“NO!” came his response.( Girls don`t do that).

That moment I decided to become a photographer.

I was 9… years old. Now I would show him. My father was a passionate amateur photographer, famous in thefamily for taking thousands of Super 8 family movies and photographs during my childhood. I guess Photography is blood thing!

Obsessed with wearing strictly black and white clothing ala 60’s British Mod style, I was nicknamed ‘Two Tone Tonelli’.

I was obsession with  a band  called The Jam.

At 18, a friend and I skipped my R.M.I.T university chemistry class to hangout at the posh Rockman`s Regency Hotel.

It was the afternoon  after a 1985 Melbourne “Queen” Concert, we thought we might spot the band. We did they drove up right in front of the  coffee lounge.

It was thrilling to see Freddie Mercury and the band arriving and in seperate limousine. Freddie in his own !

Right then, I made the decision to follow my dream to go to live in London. There I met and worked with some of the world’s greatest music icons, in fact, every band I idolised on my teenage bedroom wall.

I even got a spot on a Yorkshire  afternoon kids educational programme ,(co hosted by a fish called “BRILL” ) as the photography expert.It was the  nineties- 90’s ”Brit pop”. I coverd live shows with  legends such as Blondie, and David Bowie.

I spent a brief afternoon  Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, Oasis, Blur, Cher modfather  Paul Weller.A dream I never thought possible for this young Italian girl from the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne, far from the frenetic world of 90’s London pop scene.

I have loved my work, every exciting moment of it and it has taken me to over 50 cities around the world.

I`m so very Grateful !

                                                                                                                                                                                              

"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something then you're more willing to take risks." ~ Yo Yo Ma