Roadtrip: ruins + architecture
Old road trips in the mid-north of South Australia –eg., Sedan, Cambrai and the Marne River.
Roadtrip: Wallaroo + memories
Whilst digging through the large format archives I came across some negatives that reminded me of a road trip to the Yorke Peninsula that I had made in the 1990s in the VW Kombi. Slowly, fragments of the trip came … Read More
Roadtrip: La Trobe Valley
In the 1980s I started work on an MA consisting of photographs and a dissertation in the philosophy department at Flinders University of South Australia under Brian Medlin. The MA project was a critique of capitalist industrialization, and it was … Read More
wandering in Port Adelaide
I wandered around the urban part of the Port Adelaide precinct with a Leica in the late afternoon during winter. The Port had a gritty, grungy, industrial, working class character in the 1980s.
Melbourne: street + documentary
Street photography is closely associated with a snapshot aesthetic or more broadly a snapshot culture that breaks down the borders between the private and public realms.
Melbourne: street photos
I would frequently return to Melbourne in the early 1980’s to photograph. I used to catch the overnight Overland train, or hitch hike between Adelaide and Melbourne. I travelled lightly, with just a Leica M4 rangefinder and some 35mm black and white film.