One of the strengths of the photograph is that it brings back the past in a routine and repeatable way that is easily accessible to almost anyone. It mediates the way the world has gone by, which is then interpreted … Read More
I’ve spent some time tracing the old Sedan railway line in South Australia for the Absent History section of the Mallee Routes project. The railway lines in the mallee country were once a significant part of the infrastructure in the … Read More
I made a brief return to Copeville in South Australia’s Murray Mallee in the winter of 2021. It was a quick trip to photograph what I ‘d seen on previous trips, but had failed to photograph the subjects in black … Read More
On a recent phototrip that included exploring the Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia I came across an old railway line across the Murraylands to Mannum. It hadn’t been used for a long time and to my surprise it hadn’t … Read More
I mentioned in this Kapunda post that I was at the Lavender Trail at Kapunda camp in 2020 I scoped the Morgan railway line, as I was interested in the ruins as part of the absent history section of the … Read More
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… Read More
On my last photocamp at Balranald I photographed in and around the Yanga Station including the Woolshed and the homestead.… Read More
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 … Read More
What I wanted to avoid was a melancholy interpretation; namely, photographing the Mallee was a form of nostalgic mourning for a form of life that has passed away. … Read More
