Borung, Victoria, Australia.

The abandoned primary school in Borung Victoria, Australia. [2019-10-19 17:01:12]

Late last year I managed a small day trip up into the Mallee in search of material for my psychogeography project.

I would have preferred to stay longer but overnight stays are tricky at the best of times. They are currently impossible with the pandemic.

I was impressed that there were still some houses occupied in this hamlet. There was a pub but not much else. And of course a wheat silo, also abandoned.

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Current Exhibition Work

Thanks to Gary for documenting my work and organising the whole exhibition

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Scanned 5x4 film & upcoming exhibition

Along Arumpo Road Circa 1996

Perry's Sandhills, Wentworth circa 1996

Near Broken Hill circa 1996 

Seventh Street, Mildura circa 1996

I had these 5x4 inch Tmax 400 film images scanned by Image Science in North Melbourne recently. They have done an excellent job. I could never had imagined these scanned so well. In addition I am now able to exhibit them.

Until scanning them I was reluctant to make prints especially on large and expensive paper as these images often have defects undetectable on a contact print. Once enlarged of course the defects too are enlarged. Removal of these kinds of defects was never something I learned at college.

Scanning the negs and retouching them using digital tools like photoshop bring these pictures back to life. Given the cheap price of the scans, I may now use this workflow to make large prints of my older 5x4 negatives, for future exhibitions.

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