easy days in Bowden
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
78 Gibson Street
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
old Bowden, Adelaide
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
Torrens Power Station
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
Holden, Galga
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