Author Archives: Gary

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

The low key picture of Paradise below is from the archives. It is from the 1990s and it indicates the the content of photography is history. What photographs do is to bring the past into the present, confronting us with … Read More

I have been going through the remnants of the archive on an old Windows based PC that I had used in the 1990s. Its hard disc had collapsed — the blue screen of death — and then the back up … Read More