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T-Squat is a Melbourne based online hub with an active interest in N.Y.C, so we were naturally enthusiastic to find Nat Ma, an Melbournian ex-pat photographer now living and actively making images in New York City. Nat Ma's fantastic imagery and intellect is spread generously around the internet through his blog, his Flickr and his NYC photography website. Nat is a photographer who feels at home shooting on the streets - making images from whatever he finds or finds him. He has the nouse and confidence to get him amongst his subject matter, ready to make an image when an opportunity presents itself.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Mark Russell is a lawyer turned photographer from New Zealand who decided he was bored of pushing paper and pretending to know stuff about the law and was much more interested in travelling the world and seeing and documenting as much of it as possible in a year.

Mark's infectious positivity and enthusiasm shine through his images. His intuition for a good shot coupled with a lack of doubt of his abilities makes for dynamic image making; his images blend elements of photo journalism with fine arts and have resulted in a winning combination of images in our 3rd installment of T-Squat this week
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
by James Watkins
 
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Every Friday at 4.20pm The Hempstore in downtown Auckland has a public anti-cannabis-prohibition-session (as in pro cannabis). A few pro-cannabis signs get thrown in the ground, a big joint gets rolled and subsequently passed around the circle (to the left) of relaxed looking inner city dwellers. No-one pays much attention, those that feel like getting high for free swing by the circle when they see what's going on and for the most part the police, historically, leave everyone alone.

Those of us with no obvious signs of mouth disease tended to hit the joint first, before its release into the myriad of slightly less well-to-do city crawlers who would assemble there religiously on Fridays. This guy (joint still in hand, mid jab) seemed intent on proving his martial arts capabilities to me and my camera. He had the most eery pale blue eyes, shifty body language and an awkward restlesness. He seemed the-wearer-of-all-the-chips-in-the-world-on-his-shoulder, as well as the-bearer-of-the-answers-to-all-the-world's-questions and, yet, remains a drifter with no direction in a haze of alcohol, pot and the smoke of his ever present cigarettes with no answers left for himself.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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We can't tell you how Jim Kazanjian made these brilliant black and white images because we forgot to ask. Luckily questioning and deconstructing his techniques could arguably make the images less enjoyable. It's most pleasant to just stare at them and wonder exactly what he did, whilst taking the time to note his beautiful attention to detail. Check out all the images from this series on his website: http://www.kazanjian.net/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Max Mohr is a talented young German creative who is currently studying film in Vienna. He made this series of images whilst travelling New Zealand late last year. As well as being a photographer with a great eye, Max is pretty handy at doodling with a pencil and is definitely one to watch in the not too distant future. After he's completed his film studies in Europe he'll be out in the world, bossing around famous D.O.P's like they're snotty-nosed, spotty teenage interns and yelling at high-profile actors who have been standing naked in the snow for an hour to "try and look less cold".