Photography Gallery.
Welcome to my [online] gallery of photographic art.
My digital photographic ideas and output, which these days are a moving target, are stored here.
In the long term I plan to add a complete bodies of photographic work here, as they are finished. Also, because Flickr allows me to quickly and easily refine sequences of images, I want to exploit that idea here too. Over the years, my flickr account has become more selective, and I have attempted to construct a more cohesive body of work that flows like an open ended narrative.
More recently, I have begun exploring tumblr as a place to share and curate my own photographic work, I use 2 tumblrs to do this, s2z photoart & ephemera this is a general blog for musing and sharing ideas and moments as I capture them, and lo-resdaily this is a 'photo-a-day' blog using only my iPhone, in it I try to draw a larger narrative from all the images I collect as I move about the world.
Current, Ongoing or Complete Photographic Art projects.
Here's a list that adds some details about each body of work above.
- Lewis Baltz's seminal 70's body of work has been a major influence on this series.
- A body of work inspired by a Frederick Sommer quote, consisting of images found in my digital archives.
- I own a polaroid spectra camera, I have kept all the shots taken with it, and culled them down to a series of 80 or so images.
- A chance encounter with unusual climatic conditions produced a small set of images that could almost sum up life in the suburbs.
- I have a small collection of odd objects accumulated over the years, some of them formed the back-bone of this idea, — not convinced this is finished/resolved?
- More rediscovered polaroids, this time taken using a EE100
- 'Neo-Documentary', a series of evolving images, made using a mobile phone camera documenting, to the second, aspects of my culture, that I see fit to share. [July, 2010, This has drawn to an end as I shift my focuses elsewhere.]
- Cobbledick's Ford, winter light and a visit to this somewhat surreal location, with my hasselblad, produced this body of work, in colour which is unusual for me.
- This series of peeling posters has the potential to expand into an ongoing project.
- I am now making books of my work, mostly shot on my digital phone camera, starting around 2006, some books in the future may be made from my early digital camera experiments as well.
- This book, looks at consumerism, shot on my first digital camera a Kodak DC260.
- Maps, a body of work 3 years in the making, close to fruition.
- None shall know.... [this body of work attempts to explore the idea of re-photographing people in advertising and somehow reclaiming ‘the human’ in the image. New in 2008, [still in the work in progress stages] .
- Some polaroids, I exhibited as a small grid in a show called Guzzle it, at Workshop Level 1 413-417 Elizabeth St. Melbourne in November—December 2008
- Cloud Watching, a perfect spring time activity.
- Doors of the west, looks at factory doors of industrial estates, and ponders the poetic in them.
- My SOFOMOBO contribution for 2010.
- Typologies surface at the oddest of times, Concrete is one .
- Doorways another fascination of mine for some time.
I have several other ongoing ideas that grow expand and re-shuffle if and when they are finished they will be linked to here.
When I exhibit in real life, I add/archive some info on the exhibitions page.
How I Make My Pictures
I use a variety of cameras, formats and mediums to create my pictures, one medium, is Silver Gelatin prints, these tend to be exhibited in real galleries, whereas my digital work may only exists online. Digital, picture making has moved the goal posts for me particularly, and I'm still trying to land one in the net so to speak, I'll get back to you if and when I finally, nail it.
I try to make good pictures using all sorts of gear, from Large Format [4" x 5"], to a Hasselblad, a polaroid camera, and all kinds of digital camera, which includes, like everyone else a Mobile Phone Camera. This phone camera project hosted on blogger, had reached a natural conclusion, but now lives on, on Tumblr, the uri may have changed but the idea remains the same, sift, though an archive of mobile phone images and draw connections between each image, uploading one image per day.
My output is generated both via computer and a traditional wet darkroom. My digital software of choice is Live Picture™ 2.5 and 2.6, my Analogue software is varied. I make my own black and white film developer, currently D25, and my own paper developers, mostly Ansco 120. I am still experimenting with paper for most of my Digital prints, but as for analogue work, the choices are narrowing dramatically.
I am also publishing my work as books these days



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