I revisited Iron Knob in the Middleback Range in late 2023 whilst on a road trip to the Eyre Peninsula. I swagged there overnight on a bit of grass beside a few straggly trees in a space designated as a … Read More
The perspective of the Bowden Archives and Industrial Modernity project was a looking back on a form of life that was fading away in the present and in the process of becoming a history that was disappearing and being forgotten. … Read More
I recently unearthed a few more 6×6 negatives in the archive from the Tableland Rd series in the eastern Mt Lofty Ranges that were made in the 1980s.
I’m slowly going through my archives once again and I came across two industrial images of the Dry Creek Power Station in Adelaide’s north-western suburb of Dry Creek that is owned by Engie, the giant French electricity company. It looks … Read More
The historical industrial heartland of South Australia was the Upper Spence Gulf or the Iron Triangle as it was known in the mid-to late 20th century. The region was semi-arid and the existence of the industrial towns of Port Pirie, … Read More
Whilst I was going through my large format archives I came across a black and white industrial topographical photo of the old Osbourne Power Station and the Penrice Soda Products plant. I’d forgotten all about it, even though I had … Read More
I recently scanned some more Bowden negatives. They are supplementary in the sense that they were rejected on my initial selection for some reason. An example is this image of the Adelaide Brass Castings factory,
an overlooked industrial image of the Brompton Gasworks
I am moving on from primarily working on this website to the next stage of the project, which is to make a photo book.
Before I started my roadtrips in south eastern Australia I briefly explored ways to gain a bird’s eye view on the city of Adelaide from the perspective of the Adelaide hills or the Mt Lofty Ranges. I wanted to spatially … Read More