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
When going through my large format archives the other day I came across some images I’d made of the River Torrens (Karrawirra Parri) as it flowed through the Adelaide Parklands near Coopers Brewery on the corner of Port Rd and … Read More
This picture from the 1980s archives represents a change in the way that I had been photographing. It signifies a shift from the street photography and landscapes I had been doing previously to a more topographics style of photography: It … Read More
Today I started work in a rather low key way on the Adelaide Photography 1970-2000 book that Adam Dutkiewicz and I will work on together after he finishes Volume 2 of A Visual History: the Royal South Australian Society … Read More
In looking over the non-Bowden 1980’s photographic archives for the proposed book on Adelaide photography I realised that I was in the process of making a shift from the then fashionable street style photography of the 1970s to a more topographic … Read More
The next stage in the archive project after The Bowden Archives is a book with Adam Dutkiewicz entitled Adelaide Photography: from the 1970s –2000 to be published by Moon Arrow Press. It is a historical project that is a step … Read More
In the previous post I mentioned that I would now concentrate on other images from the archives now that The Bowden Archives has all the images it needs. I have recently been mulling over what to do with these non-Bowden … Read More
Once I’d purchased a VW Kombi I was able to make little road trips outside of the city, I started exploring around the Adelaide Hills and the Mt Lofty Ranges. I was stunned to see how small the city … Read More
As Adelaide was in the process of becoming a post-industrial city haunted by the decline of its manufacturing industry and growing working-class disaffection its only genuine gathering place–or piazza— for people was the beach side suburb of Glenelg. It was … Read More