PHOTOGRAPHY AND STYLING BY HANNAH BROOKS AND ANA VAZ

The Mardi Grass festival happens every year in the one street town of Nimbin. At one end of the street is the police station and at the other the Hemp Bar, which sells pot as freely as it does coffee. Usually Nimbin has a population of 400 but during Mardi Grass over 10,000 congregate there to smoke marijuana and protest its prohibition. We went this year and these are some of the people we befriended.

Vintage top from Shag

ELSPETH
AGE: 53 How long have you lived in Nimbin?
So you’ve been to most Mardi Grasses? Has it changed a lot?

Material Boy longest johns from Fat

THE GODDESS
AGE: 53 What’s your story?
What do you think of your polaroid?

Karen Walker top from Fat

STORM
AGE: 13 Do you work at the Rainbow Café?
Have you been to many Mardi Grasses? Does it get pretty crazy? What do kids your age get up to around here?

Karen Walker parka from Fat

EMILY
AGE: 18 Have you been to Mardi Grass before?
What do you get up to?
What are your interests? What are you looking forward to at Mardi Grass?

Karen Walker parka from Fat

CAROLYNE
AGE: Undisclosed What do you do?
Have you modelled before? Do you always have green hair?

Roadkill scarf from TV

JOHN
AGE: 75 How long have you lived in Nimbin?
Why do you think people like to live here?