Clever People: Tilly Leahy

Tilly Leahy is one of those infectious people that you are drawn to. She is crazy funny and always has some amazing fact about the most obscure of things. She is a very talented photographer and is so very close to graduating from the prestigious UNSW College of Fine Arts. A good friend of S+S, last year she helped us out (with another clever kid Sarah Kukathas) with our S/S 10/11 lookbook. Tilly was kind enough to be the guinea pig in our new blog series where we get to know some very talented people that you may or may not have already heard of, but either way we think are ace!

Who are you, what do you do and what is your weapon of choice?

My name is Tilly Leahy and I have a Canon 5D, but I have a love of film cameras.

Where do you get inspiration for your photography?

Peoples faces. I have a great love of people's faces. A photograph allows you to keep a moment maybe just a flicker, to preserve a tiny expression we use and take for granted all the time. Photographs are a great thing they allow a second to be frozen. We don't live forever, some of us may want too but we don't.  Fuck sometimes it's hard to know if you are still alive (especially if you work in hospitality). We change and grow everyday. Why not capture and cage your favourite moments, which I bet will be to do with someone else's face, and keep that. 

2012 is looming, what do you look forward to this year?

To be interviewed by Andrew Denton and be on Australian Story and to be in the Olympics for Show Jumping. Babes - I would like 2012 to be the year of the babe, but ooh I don't know, I don't think you can know. So much can change in a year. To be honest it would be great to know, but then I think, no way in hell I would or could know.

Can you please give us some love advice?

You have to make out with people while listening to Katy Perry. ITS AWESOME! A

lso there is no purpose as long as you have fun whatever it is you do, do it as long as you have fun. And make out with Katy Perry, if you can make out with Katy Perry, then you do not need any love advice. I would like some love advice from you, you Katy Perry maker-outerer. 

Do like Gerard Depardieu?

I have no idea who he is.

Write a caption for this image.

'

I am the moon and you are the sun.'

Where can we find your work?

http://tillyleahy.blogspot.com

Top five images courtesy of Tilly Leahy. Last image via weheartit.