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Through Carriageworks’ engine rooms, star Voxfrocker Chrissy Dore crews with international backstage maestro Sonny Vandervelde, moving just as fast, chasing best angles, fleeting moments and pings of joy across the ever-fascinating cycles of intense prep and post-show relief with the rear-guard of Australian Fashion Week’s 2024 runways. Photographs: Chrissy Dore

Fun fact: when Chrissy nicks outside for the odd breather between runways, she’s still shooting… Streetstyle

JOIN THE VOXFROCKERS

The Voxfrock Rookie Crew is a free mentoring programme for emerging fashion journalists and photographers run in Melbourne for ten years by fashion editor Janice Breen Burns and legendary VogueAustralia shooter Monty Coles.

The crew is also part of the wider FashLab mentoring project, a community assisting emerging and established fashion businesses in Melbourne.

Voxfrock and FashLab are extremely proud of the many rookie crew alumni now forging stellar careers as writers, photographers, producers and fashion industry creatives. Among the most recent Alexia Petsinis, Chrissy Dore,  Andy Tran, Reannon Smith, Tilly Parsons, Joel Parkinson, many many more.

Applications for the next intake of Voxfrock Rookies who will be coached through coverage of Melbourne Fashion Week 2024 as journalist/photographer crews, are now open. Graduates of photography, journalism and related creative tertiary courses are invited to send a short bio and three examples of writing or photography to contact.fashlab@gmail.com with “Rookie Crew application” in the subject line.