The Australian photographic context or reference point for the street work in the Bowden project is probably the Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s-1970s exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2010. This was curated by Julie Robinson, the Art Gallery’s Senior Curator … Read More
These are the girls being left behind by the process of deindustrialization that started in the 1970s in South Australia.The process of deindustrialization took place behind the recessions in the mid-1970s, the early 1980s and the early 1990s that destroyed much of … Read More
Another image from my wandering the streets in Bowden, Adelaide. On this occasion the picture was made with a Leica M4. The picture is an unfashionable form of documentary photography, made when South Australia’s industrial decline was underway. Australian photographic history … Read More
I’m currently going through my archives and see what is there. I spent all yesterday scanning selected negatives from this series. This picture of the two children at 78 Gibson St was a part of the Bowden series, which was done … Read More
This image was made whilst I was working on the 1980s Bowden series. The image highlights the industrial nature of this inner suburb, before its urban renewal and gentrification in the Ist decade of the 21st century. Bowden has been greened up, … Read More
Another archival image from the incompleted Port Adelaide project. The image of an edgeland is looking across an urbanscape that was routinely dismissed as swampland to the Adelaide hills from the Grand Trunkway. This runs to Garden Island and the Torrens Power … Read More
This Torrens Power Station image is from the incompleted Port Adelaide project. It was made prior to the photography being eclipsed by digital media. This sees photography as the obsolete, 19th- century technology that practitioners, occasionally frustrated by its limitations, … Read More
Like the two other images from the Mantung photoshoot in the South Australian Mallee in the early 1990s this image was also made with a Cambo 5×7 monorail and Kodak black and white Tri-X film. This image was made about the time … Read More
This is another image from the Mantung photoshoot in the South Australian Mallee in the early 1990s. It was made with a Cambo 5×7 monorail and Kodak black and white Tri-X film. This is another archival image that didn’t make it … Read More
This photo is from the incompleted Port Adelaide project. The photo is of the Port River estuary looking across to Penrice Soda Products’ soda ash production facility at Osborne, Adelaide. It is is a film based photo made with a view camera. Sadly, my … Read More