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Now for something completely different. An oldie but a goldie from the analouge vaults of a mama swimming in a rock pool down Coogee way. This is a straight b/w film capture with no tricky stuff done to it. It is as it was when I snapped it. I’ve always been taken with this matronly look possibly because I’ve always been a bit on the bony side but maybe because the woman in this picture looks like a mama. I love her to bits.
I travelled through Buenos Aries recently on my way to Antarctica and I took a pretty eclectic range of camera’s with me. One of them was a little Russian Lomo which is a small failed spy camera much loved by artist/photographers everywere for its strange effects. Anyway it didn’t perform so well in the real cold but I took some interesting shots with it on my first day in Argentina. This one is of a very very tall and narrow building in the downtown area of the city. Shot with Iford HP5 and with minimal post production.
I recently completed an artist in residency in Antarctica which saw me take a range of very unusual cameras including a homemade one with me to use in the ice and the light. But I had to spend some time in Buenos Aries on my way to and from the ship that I was travelling on and I have to say that I simply feel in love with this amazing city. So I’m going to upload a few more images from this fabulous city before I move south and begin to show some of the images which you may think you are all expecting…..:) Anyway this is another b/w film image from my very lovely little Russian lomo camera. enjoy!
Every major city I’ve been in has its own prominent neon Coke sign and Buenos Aires is no exception. The coke sign in Sydney is the gateway to Kings Cross and all that goes on there and the coke sign in the city of Buenos Aires seems to be located in a fairly equivalent part of town. Shot with a tiny Russin lomo camera with Ilford HP5 b/w film on my recent visit to this amazing and vital city in Argentina.
One of the last images that I’m going to upload in this little lomo agentina series.. Slowly I’m moving my way down south to Antarctica and will start posting some shots of that extraordinary landscape reasonably soon. :) This shot of the charming old balconies was taken in the centre of Buenos Aries with a tiny 35mm Russian Lomo using Ilford HP6.
last but one in my Lomo Argentina series. Shot in Buenos Aires on my recent visit with a very small russian lomo camera using Iford HP5. This building was the most extravagent neon assemblage of incrediblness I think I’ve ever seen. Amazing.
Shot from the seat of a taxi as I leave Buenos Aries to travel to Ushuaia at the tip of Tierra del Fuego where I will meet up with the ship that will take me to Antarctica. Shot with a tiny Russian Lomo using Ilford HP5.
This image is the prototype for a new body of work I’m developing for exhibition at Parliment House later in the year. The thing is that the wall where the works will be hung are dark port wine coloured. So I’m thinking the black and white prints in a white matt and black frame are going to look really sombre against the background so I’ve been fooling about with a little colour with these dreamy Infrared landscapes. There will be maybe six or even eight of them all about 20×24 inches then the framing so they will be a decent size when finished….. anyway my question is…. does this muted colour add to the image or detract? should I just stick to the B/W?
I’m preparing a new body of work for exhibiton later in the year and am working out ways to present these images. Yesterday I posted a single image muted landscpe #2 in order to invite some responses to the way I preparing the indivdual images with a very muted colouring and now today I’m posting a pair of images in a way that will replicate the way I want to present them. I’m thinking that I would do either three or four pairs of linked images individually framed but hung together in a series of pairs so that they will sort of look like this one….... Each photograph will be printed at around 20×24 inches and then with the matting and framing I estimate each pair will need about 2 metres of wall space for hanging. Let me know what you all think while I’m open to suggestions with this body of work and I’ll listen to all suggestions….... ta muchly in advance…...
I’m developing a new body of work of an exhibition later in the year and am trying out a few ideas for presenting the works…. a couple of days ago I uploaded muted landscape and asked for feedback and that’s been great…. now I’m looking at a different way of presenting the work… perhaps forget the frames all together and have each of the pairs printed like this at close to mural size on a black background and then suspend them in the gallery…... hmmmm this could all change again tomorrow…... but let me know what you think about losing the white of the border that comes with actual framing….. thanks
Another paired IR landscape for an upcoming show. possibly. I’‘ll make four pairs in all but most likely will only produce two pairs for the exhibition. The first one was this one and the second pair was this one So I’m still fooling about with the final selection and will observe and take note of what people think here…..
literally…..well ok maybe metaphorically as well….. I had a studio in the building on the right of your screen for nearly four years and it was a great studio in a complex of some dozens of other artists….. but it was located in the utter bowels of the inner city…. in the back of the industial estates and railway lines…. leaving there late at night was spooky to say the least …... here I’ve taken a quick snap out the window of the car as I left very very late one night….. this is the studio where I obsessed about Antarctica and this year past I achieved that goal… exactly this time last year I was in there in the frozen fairyland as an artist….. now I have a new goal….. wish me luck…..:)
this is just a straight colour reversal of the la belle black on white tee shirt I just uploaded…. same drawing anyway… they read so differently with the tones reversed / . / . / .
just a quickie for another tee shirt challenge…. you know how it is…. got to be in it to win it…...
It’s been weeks and weeks since I put up any new work… been busy with one thing and another… though that may seem like a poor excuse for not feeding the bubble with new stuff…. anyhow….I thought I’d go back to a medium that I truly love… Infrared film… Kodak of course…. not that they make the damned stuff any more which is heartbreaking to true lover of the medium like myself… I only have three rolls left in the whole world… don’t know what I’m going to do for kicks when I use them…. sigh…. anyway…. a new series of works …. the / Silo’s in Newtown. This is a very old building and once was a real silo… now it’s been converted to very very expensive chi chi apartments… / . / and I do mean expensive…. but the thing is that the form of the building remains true…. how do you fight such strong lines? They dominate the line of the suburb like nothing else and over the years I’ve wasted my fair share of film on them…. this image and the ones that follow are as small part of that repotire and I do really really hope you enjoy them…. the Silo Series…..
finally… this is the very last of this current rather long series of Infrared photo’s of the old Silo building in Newtown …..it’s been nice to have been able to post them here…thanks for looking / . /
this is an entry to the Flash Fiction and Tee Shirt Revolutioon design challege. The brief is to make a tee shirt design based on an existing story in the Flash Fiction gallery. My design is based on a short but pithy story by Rex Inkpen called ‘define weird’...... as soon as I read the first line of this wonderful tight little vingette I had the idea for the tee shirt…. hope it makes sense to you guys…. enjoy ….. oh and really… take it up to large view to really see the story…... it’s worth the effort….promise….:)
the next in my tiny moon madness series of shots…. a bight deep yellow moon rose from the sea down near me about ten days ago and it was just so beautiful that I had to waste a little bit of film on it…. when it came out from behind the heavy heavy storm clouds it was hiding behind it really was a thing of rare beauty….. / . / / . / and don’t forget to check out the other two in this series / . / / . / and smugglers moon one / . / . / / smugglers moon one / . / / . / and smugglers moon three / . /
as I sit high up on the edge of a cliff waiting for the moon to rise from the sea I watched all these crazy fisherpersons dodging the waves on the rock shelf over yonder. one slip and your fish supper not having fish for supper…. I guess it’s just lucky that the swell wasn’t all that big… or maybe it just looks more dangerous from where I was sitting that it really was down there on the rocks…and maybe they were looking up at me perched on the edge of the cliff thinking something similar…. life is funny sometimes / . /
this is taken from Bulli Tops and I live just down there on the left just out of view behind the bushes…. and those four supertakers waiting to go and berth at Port Kembla…. there were nine waiting that day but I couldn’t get them all in with the rainbow as well…. and I do like a bit of rainbow action / . / !!
well the title says it all… this time the background emulsion of this 15 year old film has gone all brown and green… no joke I can’t even imagine how stressed this film got while it rested in a big box of old negatives for decades waiting for me to get to it…. and coz it’s been so long since I even thought about it… I can’t remember which way up the moon was…. straight scan from the neg with a bit of resizing and that’s all folks / . /
I posted this image a couple of days ago and the very fine Philmore suggested that it would look pretty cool as a tee shirt….so for Philmore …. it’s totally cool…...
At the very beginning of my conscious memory is the horizon. Mile high clear blue skies above and an endless panorama of baked red earth covered in low scrubby saltbush, bent and twisted by the searing hot winds. Endless hot days and restless nights listening to the rattle of an old tin roof straining to lose the accumulation of the day’s heat. Hoping that it wasn’t the oockle ogre who came at night to visit naughty children. The amazing sound of rain on a tin roof and siting up late watching the joy of grown-ups dancing in the dust with their feet bare, hands outstretched to catch the scatter of moisture falling gently from the skies above. Violent red and yellow skies at dawn and ghostly white rainbows arching over the dried up mudflats. The screeching exuberant joy of the countless brilliant flocks of cockatoo’s wheeling and jostling as they circled and danced above. Dead kangaroo’s on the track to town and the baleful glare of the fearless, frightening crows and hawks sitting on these sorry corpses as we drove by trailing huge clouds of red dirt. Dusty swagmen and silent blacks slowly shuffling by at dusk. And the red red earth, always filling my view. The hazy memory of my own inarticulate child’s delight at being so close to the earth with boundless space and time all around me. / . / . / this image was taken with an old Olympus SLR using Kodak Gold 400 asa film
On the first day of my stay in Melbourne while on route to the Ballarat International Foto Biennale I met up with some friends and we went to the old Convent in … I think… Abbotsford. Apart from it being a very beautiful place to just wander about in… there is a fabulous new artspace and gallery there which I am interested in for a possible exhibition next year. Anyway the jusxtaposition of the old and the new everywhere in this amazing place was a real photographers delight…. this is one of the random snaps I took while wandering about enjoying the beautiful spring weather and the company of my new friends….. / . / . /
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