Million dollar dumps

Found old Japanese prints

Road Trip July 2011

We drove the car from Canberra across the Hay plains in NSW to Lake Mungo then down to the Grampians on our way back to Melbourne. I got addicted to the new Hipstamatic app on my iPhone.

Thinking of Mum

Developer's Dream

A journey through suburbia in search of discarded and wasted spaces waiting for imminent, eventual transformation. A work in progress...

Emotional Landscapes

I’ve always been interested in how spaces make us feel, affect our state of mind and provoke emotion. In this series of work I tried to document atmosphere and the feeling connecting me to the particular place.

Mystery House

I lived near this house for four years. The blinds were always closed and the garden was overgrown. Did anyone live there? Every time I drove past the house it intrigued me and I always meant to photograph it. Eventually I did after about four years. Much to my surprise only one week later I drove past and the house was gone, completely demolished! I hadn't even processed the film. Weird... I ended up winning at prize at the Centre for Contemporary Photography for this photo.

Knitting Nannas

I had the opportunity over a period of time to join in on a knitting circle with a group of lovely ladies at a nursing home. This activity was mainly designed to get the ladies out of their rooms, to interact and keep busy. For some this was a serious task, for others it was the opportunity to chat about their families and gossip about the goings on around the place. For the alzeimer's sufferers it was therapeutic.

One of the ladies who turned up for the first time the day I took my camera hadn't knitted in over 20 years. She'd spent most of her life knitting but her hands got so riddled with chronic arthritis as she aged that she had to give it up. She was in her late nineties. She struggled to handle the needles but hadn't forgotten how to do it. She managed to knit some rows despite the pain she was in. She knitted with a huge smile on her face in amazement that she was actually doing it again after 20 years.

I really enjoyed my time in the knitting circle. I learned heaps about appreciating the really simple things in life.