mel in the milkyway: Press and published work

Check me outside of the milkyway with my stories, photos and articles displayed in these fine media companies and publications:

Debate Magazine - AUT's student magazine
- Should we mine the Coromandel? [issue 6 2010]
- New Zealand Music Mysteries - Where are they now? [issue 11 2010]
- 'Red Shoes' cover photo [issue 18 2010]
- Polyvore website review [issue 20 2010]
- The Naked and Famous 'Passive Me, Aggressive You' album review [issue 23 2010]
- 'Daisy' cover photo [issue 26 2010]
- 'Leaves' cover photo [issue 1 2011]
- 'My Wedding and Other Secrets' movie review [issue 5 2011]
- Avalanche City 'Our New Life Above the Ground' album review [issue 9 2011]
- Homegrown Banana column #1 [issue 14 2011]
- Homegrown Banana column #2 [issue 16 2011]
- Homegrown Banana column #3 [issue 18 2011]
- Homegrown Banana column #4 - We don't talk like Sims do [issue 20 2011]
- 'The Muppets: The Green Album' album review [issue 21 2011]
- Homegrown Banana column #5 - Epic Kai Time [issue 22 2011]
- Nicki Minaj 'Pink Friday Deluxe Edition' album review [isue 22 2011]
- Switchfoot 'Vice Verses' album review [issue 23 2011]
- Homegrown Banana column #6 - World in Union [issue 24 2011]
- Reasons why we should love Australia (or stop giving them a hard time) [issue 25 2011]
- Level Zero column #1 - searching for gamer cred with a Portal gun [issue 1 2012]
- Lights 'Siberia' album review [issue 1 2012]
- Lana Del Rey 'Born to Die - Deluxe Edition' album review [issue 2 2012]
- What is the deal with Lana Del Rey? [issue 3 2012]
- Level Zero column #2 - My head shots are not flukes [issue 5 2012]
- Axis of Awesome comedy show review [issue 10 2012]
- A lesson in the fangirl [issue 10 2012]
- Photos for New Zealand Fashion Week - The ins and outs of NZ fashion's biggest party [issue 22 2012]
- Photos for That's a wrap! - NZ's fabulous party [issue 23 2012]

Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Centre - Pacific focused news site
[Profile on PMC]
- RAMSI policeman on peacekeeping assignment – and gains a wife [7 March 2012]
- Performance director calls for more Pacific representation [29 March 2012]
- PNG’s media industry hit by poor pay, says book editor [14 March 2012]
- North Shore children share in Pasifika storytelling [14 March 2012]
- A long way to go for NZ newsroom diversity [2 April 2012]
- Photos for NZ: Asia-Pacific journalism students win prizes at AUT [4 April 2012]
- NZ: Prize-winning journalist says a long way to go for NZ newsroom diversity [5 April 2012]
- Prize-winning journalist says NZ has long way to go for newsroom diversity [18 April 2012]
- Dancing Cambodian street kids share stories with Auckland youth [26 April 2012]
- Photo: Auckland helps Samoa celebrate 50th anniversary of independence [1 June 2012]
- Samoan choir sings in honour of independence [6 June 2012]
- Volunteers help Fiji’s flood-hit farmers and livestock [7 June 2012]
- Young Labour member calls for more ethnic representation in NZ politics [12 July 2012]

3 News Online - New Zealand's TV3 news site.
- Young Labour member wants more ethnic representation in politics [16 July 2012]
- Photographer at Ricky Martin Auckland concert [17 April 2015]
- Photographer at Demi Lovato Auckland concert [26 April 2015]
- Photographer for Backstreet Boys Auckland concert [12 May 2015]

North Shore Times - Auckland's North Shore regional community paper.
- Art sought to transform Milford [printed 14 June 2012, pg 22]
- Designer back in finals [printed 12 Oct 2012, pg 12]

M2 Magazine - NZ monthly men's magazine
- Contributor for Issue 87/Aug 2012 (you can read my 'Time to Evolve' and 'Prized Safes' pieces in the preview)
- Photo assistant for Eating for Performance feature [Issue 89/Oct 2012]

M2 Australia - Australia's bimonthly men's magazine
- Contributor for Issue 19/Sept-Oct 2012 (you can read my 'Foam Cups are for more than drinking' and my 'Prized Safes' pieces in the preview)
- Beyonce voted sexiest mom [24 Sept 2012]
- The world's tallest building in 90 days [24 Sept 2012]

Waikato Times - Waikato's regional daily newspaper
- Parachute Music Festival tickets in demand [2 Aug 2012]
- SAFE has no clout [3 Aug 2012]
- Youth to get $1m arts hub in CBD [4 Aug 2012]

Te Waha Nui - AUT's student journalism newspaper
- Parent to Parent network helps parents care for disabled children [issue 43 in print/22 Aug 2012 online]
- Auckland Transport responds to Facebook pressure over ‘nightmare’ bus service [issue 44 in print/24 Aug 2012 online]
- Māori values lost in media mainstream [issue 45 in print/1 Oct 2012]
- Tessa Duder helps launch Books and Brekkie [issue 16 in print/17 Oct 2012]

FOUR.co.nz - New Zealand's channel FOUR's online site.
- NZFW 2012 - Liam runway photo shoot [4 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Ruby runway photo shoot [4 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Cybele runway photo shoot [4 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Company of Strangers fashion show review [4 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Designer Selection Show runway photo shoot [4 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Juliette Hogan review [4 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Video Diary Day 1 with Sammy Salsa [4 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - NZ Wedding Magazine Collection runway photo shoot [5 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - NZ Wedding Magazine Collection review [5 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Riddle Me This runway photo shoot [5 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Kagi Jewellery review [5 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Video Diary Day 2 with Sammy Salsa [5 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Salasai runway photo shoot [6 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Annah Stretton runway photo shoot [6 Sept 2012]
- NZFW 2012 - Video Diary Day 3 with Sammy Salsa [6 Sept 2012]

TV3 Online - New Zealand television news site.
- Photos of Jamie Ridge modelling for NZ Weddings Show at NZFW [5 Sept 2012]
- Photos of Behind the Scenes of Dancing with the Stars NZ week 1 [2 June 2015]

This is Morgs - New York based blog
- Photos for Charlie Brown fashion show review (guest blog by Lara Wyatt) [9 Sept 2012]

Plave - UK based fashion and culture site.
- Photos for Guest Blog: From the Charlie Brown Runway at NZ Fashion Week #248 [10 Sept 2012]

The Edge - New Zealand's #1 Top 40 Music Station
- Photographer at OneRepublic/Ginny Blackmore Auckland concert [18 November 2013]
- Photographer at Ricky Martin Auckland concert [17 April 2015]
- Photographer at Demi Lovato Auckland concert [26 April 2015]

More FM - New Zealand's #1 Adult Contemporary Music Station
[Online editor, photographer and videographer]
Special projects:
- Videographer and editor for More FM and Fiji Airways 'Mid Air Matrimony' Contest [August 2013]
- Photographer at Olly Murs/Jackie Thomas Auckland concert [7 November 2013]
- Photographer at OneRepublic/Ginny Blackmore Auckland concert [18 November 2013]
- Photographer at Taylor Swift 'Red Tour' Auckland [29 November 2013]
- Video editor for 'Shop Rock Recover USA' promo video [24 August 2014]
- Videographer and editor for Joe & Dean: Year That Was [17 December 2014]
- Editor for 100 Days of Lana & Jase's in 100 Seconds [29 May 2015]
- Videographer and editor for Lana & Jase's White Christmas [14 Dec 2015]


Also co-founder/writer for the fashion site iammfashion.tumblr.com