A Family Day Out

I decided to experiment with an infrared filter on a digital camera just to see what would happen. I went to a spring flower festival in Canberra on a bright warm sunny day recently. The low fi looking images ended up overly saturated in reds and pinks. The slow shutter speed recorded some movement. I think there's something quite sinister about the images. I like the strange vibe and unsettling tension. The people kind of look like ghosts inhabiting a post apocalyptic world.

Darkness made visible

This is a body of work that I photographed in 2005 and exhibited in Sydney in 2006. It’s about the fleeting nature of emotion and the ever changing state of the inner world.

The series was photographed within the front and backyard of the house I was living in during that time. The images were all photographed after twilight. Taking long exposures became an act of letting go, of allowing things to unfold around me. It was an organic and intuitive process.

What resulted was a personal narrative, a self portrait taken in fragments over the period of a year revealing themes of decay, growth and regeneration.

Night Fog

What are the chances?

A couple of oddly interesting photos from a recent wedding. Stuff you just can't fake...

Faye's World

Faye is a wonderful eccentric woman who lives with a petrochemical sensitivity disorder. It's so debilitating that a short walk to her local shops in her small coastal town brings on headaches, dizziness and nausea. Her house is her world. It's large and packed to the rafters with items she's collected from op shops for over thirty years. Everything is perfectly displayed like it's a museum.

Family Trees