Showing posts with label flaneur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flaneur. Show all posts

2020/01/10

Some early year ruminations.

West Sunshine, 2020-01-09 17:05:05
I am no fan of best of lists or end of year lists at all.

I will never write about gear. I envy after several pieces of kit. But they are all mostly on the 2nd hand market these days.

I write here for two reasons, to practice my writing skills, both generally and as I consider my PHD application at some point in the future. Oh and to showcase some of the work I am working on. This image to the right is from my ongoing Sunshine Project, on tumblr
Here’s a list of projects I am working on as they're called these days:-

  • Sunshine, postcode 3020 and its changes using both film and digital, the film idea is titled  'Sunshine in Silver Stanza 1 though X', the digital work lives online on tumblr [pc3020.tumlr.com]. For now.
  • Several photobooks in various stages of pre-prodcution and a handful completed listed on my main website a link will be added once my technological issues are resolved.
  • Collage and montage projects, these have just this year begun. After many years of gestation. The plan is for them to be small cheap 6x 4 postcards.
  • A small group of pictures currently titled ‘A Winter Mornings Walk’, inspired by Robert Adams’ work Summer nights. [silver gelatin a work in progress final size to be determined]
  • A series of silver gelatin prints I have printed and exhibited twice called Maps.
  • A series of silver gelatin prints about bridges all shot on 5x4 film and more than 20 years unfinished.
  • A series of silver gelatin prints on the urban landscape from both 5x4 film and 120 film black and white.
  • A small type C print series of pictures near on and around the Ring road M8 freeway, in progress.
  • Two  of tumblrs that explore time and place one at work  the other at home as well as a tumblr of pictures uploaded on the the fly that are loosely curated in any order that suits, the only connection being visual from picture to picture
  • A large box of polaroids that needs editing down to a book.
  • One tentative exhibition has been proposed but is still in the verbal discussion phase.
  • Working on the South Eastern fringes of the Mallee, and the rural towns in-between
  • C Roads and other Adventures a digital psychogeographic exploration of Victoria, or anywhere else I wander with "purpose" 
  • Pictures of nothing or as I like to call it Neo-Documentary

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2019/10/20

C Roads & Other Adventures?

Borung, Victoria, Australia. 2019-10-18 17:00:01
I spent some time on the road exploring the edges of the Mallee recently. I am working on an idea that is a kind of 20th century flanuer, in a car.

The parameters are simple. I drive for an hour or so on any of the main highways west or north. Then once I leave the freeway or highway attempt to follow only C roads.  Usually I have to cross The Great Dividing Range to really see some changes in environment and culture. This trip the second for the year was no exception. I choose my route by considering the light and the amount of time I may need to get home.

This trip found me in a place called Borung. A small hamlet/village about 30 mins north east of  Wedderburn. The hamlet consisted of a few houses, and a disused wheat silo. Many of the houses were run down, the primary school closed.

I made this image at Borung, but worry is it a trope?

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2019/10/01

Recent finds

Southbank, Melbourne, Vcitoria, Ausralia. 2019-09-30 12:54:51
Revisiting the location in and around Southbank yesterday delivered some interesting results. I also photographed the torn poster on film using my Hasselbald.

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2019/09/29

Flickr posting increase

Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon City, Hong Kong, 2014-07-06 08:16:45
Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon City, Hong Kong, 2014-07-06 08:16:45

As I am on term break at the moment I have decided to ramp up my posting to flickr, so far there has been three postings in the past week, up from my usual one.

This image is from my archive from a Hong Kong Holiday in 2014. A time where I was able to flaneur around the city, thanks to the loan of a Android device with local internet connectivity as my guide.

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2019/09/27

Return Visits...

Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2019-09-26 12:20:32

I returned briefly on Friday the 27th to the site I drove by on Sunday 22nd and discovered much more than I had hoped

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2019/08/24

This morning on flickr...

Sunshine Train Station, Sunshine, Melbourne, Vcitoria, Australia. 2017-05-14 13.01.33
Sunshine Station,Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria,Australia 2014-05-14 13.01.33
Part of a larger project over on tumblr as well.


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2019/07/27

2019/07/21

Wandering around...

2019-07-20 15:03:12 [37°41'35.621" S 145°0'22.692" E]
I was drawn to the incongruous nature of this image in a commercial plant nursery in front of barb wire.

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