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Wordless Wednesday pandemic edition #202004290700

New light industry development 2005-12-23 17:30:13

Wordless Wednesday #20200422

TyYAT[Twenty Years Ago Today]

P0002125 Version 2 I was experimenting with my first point and shoot digital camera.

Distractions during the times of the pandemic

Another 20 year old sunset over Melbourne

Throwback Thursday [Pandemic Edition #2]

An film shot image from nearly 10 years ago says a lot about where I was at in my image making — Highly designed urban living in the Docklands. A source of fascination for me in the early 2000s.

In 2009, it seems I was working in and around the Docklands precinct of Melbourne. Using colour film and my Hasselbald. This work is likely to sit in my archive its use undetermined. I had begun working there as early as 1993 or so. In those days the site was still a lingering industrial wasteland. See image below shot on 5×4 and black and white film.

The Doclands circa 1993 — An area of the docklands undergoing reclamation. This time shot on 5 x 4 black and white film.

Wordless Wednesday [Pandemic Edition #1]

Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2010-04-15, 18:12:42

TYAT [2010-04-13]

inside a panel beaters workshop ten years a go today — 2010-04-130 10:16:06 [Ten years ago today]

Currently reading RETHINKING PHOTOGRAPHY Histories, Theories and Education

Street Art?

I listened to this ABC broadcast about Street and and Graffiti. this morning

“Street artists, advertising agencies and the authorities are in the middle of a space race.

It’s a lot less about little green men and much more about spray paint and stencils. But the stakes are still sky high. Artists are busy commandeering as many city surfaces as their paints will allow, authorities are trying to neutralise the threat, while advertising agencies are keen to clone the potency of hand painted art.”

I have a small series of work that looks at much more ephemeral art of peeling advertising posters. Which is a kind of street art.

Sunset over Melbourne

What impact does a visual trope like a sunset have in this day and age of the networked image. Especially if it was made before flickr, facebook and probably google? This sunset was made circa 2002. It was made from the edge of the site where I worked from 1994 to 2013.

I’m thinking of posting sunsets fairly frequently as a kind of response to the current pandemic sweeping the world.