Mallee Routes photo-book
With the help of Paul Atkins from Atkins Lab with the design and editing I have finally put together a pdf of a new Mallee Routes photobook that has been sent to Sydney to be printed by Momento Pro. It is entitled Mallee Routes: Photographing the Mallee 2019, with the book consisting of a series of scoping images made with small handheld cameras. The book has been designed to supplement my prints… Read More
at Murtoa
Surprisingly, the Wimmera Mallee trip turned out to be an addition to the Mt Arapiles photo-session with the Melbourne-based Friends of Photography Group, rather than the reverse. The reverse was what I’d mapped out prior to going on the photo trip. My time and energy was taken up grappling with the nature photography at Mt Arapiles, rather than actually spending lots of time photographing in the Wimmera Mallee. The latter is what… Read More
returning to the Wimmera Mallee
I am planning to make a quick return to the Jung and Murtoa region in the Wimmera Mallee whilst Suzanne is walking in Lord Howe Island. I am piggybacking on spending a weekend (6th-8th September) with the Friends of Photography Group (FOPG) at Mt Arapiles in Victoria’s Wimmera plains. FOPG are a Melbourne-based large format film landscape photography group who make a number of day excursions together during the year as well… Read More
At Tanunda: space/place
I have taken the opportunity kindly offered by a group of people who are walking the Lavender Trail to join them for a 5 day camp at Tanunda in the Barossa Valley this weekend (22nd-27th August). My designation is a non-walking member of the group, which means that instead of walking the different parts of the Lavender Trail each day like the others, I will be out photographing in the Murray Mallee…. Read More
Copeville and Galga
I mentioned in an update on the Claypan post that I needed to make another trip to the Copeville and Galga area of the South Australian Murray Mallee to pick up where I’d have left off. As I mentioned, the previous trip had been cut short, as I’d neglected to take my sleeping bag; and it was too cold to continue sleeping in my clothes in the swag in the early winter… Read More
phototrip to Claypans
I leave for a short photo trip to Claypans in the Murray Mallee in South Australia tomorrow morning (Saturday 15th, June). It’s only for a couple of days, to allow me to do some black and white photographs of some of the scenes that I’d scoped when returning to Adelaide from the Wentworth trip. I will also explore around the nearby Copeville and Galga region. The images are for the Absent History… Read More
a Yarriambiack suite?
Prior to the Wentworth photocamp on the Darling River I spent some time in the Victorian Wimmera thinking about, and scoping for, a series of images that I planned to call the Yarriambiack suite. Would this be a goer? The trip involved a lot of travelling. I went to Wentworth via the Dukes Highway and the Victorian Wimmera (Murtoa, Donald, Lake Boga and Swan Hill) and I returned to Encounter Bay via… Read More
Wentworth photocamp
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 Mallee’s unknown futures
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
a Wimmera detour through historical traces
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