This website uses cookies to improve your experience navigating our site. By continuing to browse, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
OK, I understand
Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
If you thought I was doing a good job of documenting talented creative Australians on TDF, then you really have to check out Walking with Giants - the wonderful photo project of young Melbourne-based photographer Bryan Sun.
I'm always in awe of anyone who can take a beautiful photographic portrait - it's harder than you think! Making someone feel comfortable in front of the camera, and capturing something honest and real about them is a very fine art. I am usually hopeless at it... I get all nervous and flustered, which only encourages extreme self consciousness in whoever I am trying to photograph! Bryan Sun, on the other hand, seems to have it totally sussed (and he's only 23!). Bryan's shots are relaxed and beautiful, and he seeks out such an interesting mix of spaces and subjects from all walks of life.
Walking with Giants began as a experiment for Bryan, a project which would test and hone his portraiture skills. Soon enough he became quite obsessed with seeking out ever more interesting subjects - the project recently took him on a 6 week trip to the US, where he met and photographed a bunch of amazing artists in New York, LA and San Francisco. Now back on home soil, his blog is filling up again with more local talent... recent portraits include sculptor Jonas Ropponen, painter Emily Ferretti, jeweller Vikki Kassioras, and artist Peter Atkins.
Bryan publishes only one or two portraits from each shoot, usually accompanied with a succinct sentence or two describing his personal impressions of the subject or the space. (Be sure to read Bryan's anecdote accompanying the Peter Atkins shoot... priceless!).
Nice work Bryan! I don't know you but you are totally killing it.
The Design Files acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.
First Nations artists, designers, makers, and creative business owners are encouraged to submit their projects for coverage on The Design Files. Please email bea@thedesignfiles.net
The Design Files’ original content and photos are copyright protected. Please email us before reposting our content on other publications, personal websites, or Instagram. Feel free to share our images on Pinterest using the credit ‘via thedesignfiles.net’. Thank you!