This kind of late photography in the era of television and newer technologies turns up late, wanders through the places where things have happened, and explores  the effects of the activity of a world gone. Though people are absent in this  photography of traces, fragments, empty buildings  there is  a lot of remnants of activity

On  my  last photocamp at Balranald I photographed in and around  the Yanga Station including the Woolshed and the homestead.

I leave for another road trip to Balranald  early Tuesday (11th September)  morning. I need to build up some large format images for the forthcoming collaborative Mallee Routes exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery  early  in 2019. I just don’t have enough work  for this last collaborative exhibition,   and  I need to make the pictures before it becomes too hot to photograph in the northern Mallee. I plan to  camp… Read More

I am currently working on making another Mallee Routes photobook. It includes 35mm black and white images of the South Australia Mallee that I made in the 1980s,  and it will have a small introduction. At this stage I have the selected and edited a bunch of small prints that are currently spread out on the table in the office.  

The winter photocamp at Balranald with Gilbert Roe  consisted of photographing on the property of John and Marita Standen’s  Rosenhoe farm, which is  on the Wakool River,  and scoping the area around Balranald itself, which is is located in Mutthi Mutthi traditional country. I would have liked to  extend the photocamp to do more exploring and some large format photography,  but  I had to return to Adelaide to prepare for the  Collaboration: Interrogating Melbourne’s changing urban… Read More