I am planning to go on  a photocamp at  Wentworth and the lower Darling River  next Thursday (25th of April) for the Mallee Routes project. I want to travel slowly to Wentworth as I need to spend time in the Wimmera Mallee region, retracing my steps from an earlier exploration. I will probably stay over night at Murtoa or Donald before going onto Wentworth. My plan in the Wimmera is very dependant on the… Read More

The photography in  the forthcoming Mallee Routes exhibition  in late 2019   will now be  spread across  the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery’s three galleries, namely,  the small Jean Symonds Gallery, the large Main Gallery and the small  Sculpture Court gallery.  These three galleries are linked and this gives the exhibition a unity.  The overall exhibition is organised in terms of past (in the Jean Symonds Gallery),  present (in the Main Gallery) and future… Read More

I am off to Melbourne to attend the Melbourne Art Book Fair 2019   at the NGV  and to see what is happening in the world of Photobooks.  I plan to make a detour via the Wimmera Mallee as the weather  forecast  is for  overcast cloud cover and cool conditions around  the Horsham region. It is forecasted to be hot and sunny on the return leg to Adelaide, which is not good conditions… Read More

The exhibition at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery in South Australia has been shifted to 2019/2020 and it has been given larger space–the main gallery. The exhibition is a summing up exhibition of the 1st 3 years of the collaborative Mallee Routes project between Eric Algra, Gilbert Roe and myself.

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