The Mallee

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

Whilst I have been working on images to build up my digital and film galleries   I have been searching for some Australian antecedents to my documentary approach to photography  for the Mallee Routes project. Who has been here before? … Read More

I took the opportunity to make a  side-trip into the  Victorian Mallee when  I was transporting  the prints from the Weltraum and Abstraction x 5 exhibitions to my fellow  photographers—Stuart Murdoch, Judith Crispin and Jeff Moorfoot-— to the pick-up points … Read More

With the initial exhibition of the Mallee Routes project Atkins Photo Lab finishing at the end of November I interrupted the archive project I was working on  to go on a  photo roadtrip to Hopetoun to  build up my archive for … Read More

I have a phototrip to the Victorian Mallee planned around  the 12th-15th November. The trip  is in two parts: a camp at Murrayville on the Mallee Highway on my own for two days so that I can  continue to work on … Read More

Early in 2016 I made a road trip to the Wimmera Mallee in Victoria. I was intrigued by this montage of  old petrol and oil signs around Horsham  that signified an earlier of motoring–some are prior to 1945.  Veedol, for instance, … Read More

This archival gallery provides the historical context, and reference point,   for the contemporary images  in the other  Mallee Routes’ galleries. Most of these archival photos of the history of the Mallee were found in the National Library of Australia’s Trove … Read More

I have another  Mallee trip planned in early November with my base camp being  at Murrayville.  So I took the opportunity  whilst traveling along the Calder Highway between Ouyen and Mildura to rendezvous  with Judith Crispin  to  go to Lajamanu … Read More

We–Gilbert Roe, Eric Algra and myself-— are having an exhibition at the Atkins Photo Lab gallery  opening October 7th, 2016.  This is a  kick starter exhibition  for the project,  as it were. We each have an individual  section in the gallery for our images and … Read More

I noticed  this silo  when I was driving from Lameroo to Karoonda  on my way back to Victor Harbor after the silo photoshoot at Lameroo.  It was  near  a little hamlet or settlement called Kulkami in the southern Mallee.  There was no railway line near the … Read More