These are a couple more Bowden portraits that supplement the ones currently in the Bowden portfolio on my website. I didn’t do many formal portraits. As I mentioned in the Preface I worked part time at Conroys Smallgoods in Bowden to buy … Read More
In his essay ‘Australian Made’ in Each Wild Idea: Writing , Photography, History (2000) Geoffrey Batchen contests the view that Australian photography after 1945 was a dependent shadow of trends in the United States. He says that this assumption underpins … Read More
The empty urban streets of the inner suburb of Bowden bear witness to the slow and steady disappearance of the blue collar, inner suburb working class through the process of de-industralization. The streets are the sites of this trauma and … Read More
During the 1980s when I was working on the Bowden project in Adelaide The Developed Image, the South Australian Photographic Workshop and the South Australian Workshop (SAW) came into existence. There were number of art photographers gathered around each. The Developed Image was the first … Read More
In the 1980s Bowden-Brompton was a mixture of housing, factories, shops and small offices and warehouses. I was surprised by this mixture, given that Bowden is less than 4 kilometres from Adelaide’s CBD and adjacent to the Adelaide Parklands. It … Read More
The graffiti around the streets of Bowden in the 1980s was done prior to the tagging and the boom in street art in New York in the 1970s-1980s and prior to many councils encouraging street art in the city by designating walls … Read More
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