I am often asked about which camera people should buy. Conversley I have never been asked which photographer is worth studying. This may be because I am regarded as a technician and not as a photographer. Alternately, it may be that the language of photography is relatively unknown. I suspect that the latter interpretation is...
Category: Musings
My work ‘Mourning an elder’ is a finalist in the 2013 Moran Photo Prize
I was invited to photograph the funeral of distinguished Aboriginal elder Richard Phillips, by his son. During the funeral service at the Block, Redfern, I photographed this mourner. For me, funeral photography is subversive as it challenges society’s fixation with wealth, status and materialism by showing people are at their finest when they are compassionate and...
Thoughts on my work – a short video interview by Steve Marshall
Transcript courtesy of Youtube I’m my divided body 0:06 design to show people things 0:10 that are important to me I defy not 0:13 is making the invisible visible in a beautiful way 0:17 so all my work is then constructed 0:21 I’m simply showing things out there 0:25 which people have never really...
On reading Geoff Dyer’s book, The Ongoing Moment
When an art wants to grow up and become a science, there’s often a lot of nonsense involved. In the case of psychology, that nonsense unfortunately involved horrid things happening to animals. Behavioural psychologists had to find out how a baby monkey would react to being separated from its mother. Billions of rats were sacrificed...
Thoughts behind my forthcoming exhibition, Lost In Transit, part of HeadOn Photo Festival
In June 2011 I embarked on a three-month photography project that sought to marry numerous ideas I had been mulling over for a while. Firstly, I wanted a project that was local. One can now go on organised photographic tours of whatever picks your fancy: Buddhist monasteries in Laos, Silverback Gorillas in Rwanda, whatever you...
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