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.
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
Whilst going through my archives yesterday I came across some industrial images of the silos at Wallaroo on the York Peninsula in South Australia. I had forgotten all about this trip until I came across the images below. At the … Read More
Old road trips in the mid-north of South Australia –eg., Sedan, Cambrai and the Marne River.
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
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.
As noted in some of the earlier posts in this blog the third section of The Bowden Archives and Other Marginalia consists of the various road trips of different kinds that I made whilst I was living in Bowden, then … Read More
In this post in 2016 I mentioned that I had started to work on the Bowden Archives and Other Marginalia book. In two other posts in 2017 about the Adelaide Art Photographers 1970-2000 book, I indicated that a few of … Read More