New Work
NIMA, NIMA, NIMA…
The National Indigenous Music Awards were held in Darwin over the weekend and as per usual it was the Gurrumul Yunipingu show, with the man from Elcho Island taking out 4 gongs… with the Warumpi Band the highlight for me, they were fully sick. I was shooting officially but had a small studio set up... »
Operation Barbarossa?…No Just Brisbane!
I’d like to have said ” only in Queensland” but these guys are everywhere it seems! From the ” History Alive ” pagent at Fort Lytton, where people dress up as Germans and play soldiers in a fort that was built to keep out the Russians. »
Made the cut!
I’ve just been announced as a finalist in the Moran contemporary photography prize, which makes a change from the last time I was associated with the Moran name was chasing Doug and Greta up and down Phillip St before and after court sittings in the earlier part of this century. As a coincidence last week I... »
Brunette Downs redux
Can you ever go back? I’ve heard a lot of photographers say that sometimes there is merit in a ” Go Back ” , returning to a place you’ve photographed before because it was… A – So damn good the first time around that it HAS to be better the second. B –... »
Just Back from the Center…
It’s been a busy couple of weeks of planes, trains and automobiles..crossing the country by plane then returning by train, then driving down to the center and back in a week has left me ready to not sit in a car seat for at least a week. I’ll post some pics from the trip in... »
Starry Starry Night
Late last year with the annual Gemind meteor shower due over Australian skies, I was searching for a place to shoot some time lapse as well as stills for the papers the next day . While ringing up station after station down the track looking for a place with… A – A bloody big windmill …no... »
Vale Maurice Rioli.
I covered the NT state funeral of former Richmond legend and Territory MP Maurice Rioli Yesterday for the Age and Sydney Morning Herald and at the behest of a few people who were in the back of the cathedral who couln’t see what was going on I’m posting a few that didn’t get a... »
A journey to “THE” Island Home
I have just completed an assignment for the SMH with reporter Bruce Elder on Elcho Island where to quote my mate Bob Gosford ” That mob on Elcho are a good mob no different from the rest of Arnhem land, just a little bit more relaxed about things”. The one thing that stands out on... »
Brunette Downs 2010
I have finally gotten around to scanning a pile of freshly developed film and found this at the top…more to come. »
Glad that August is over!
Once again August in the Top End goes down as the busiest month of the year , when every man and his dog is up here enjoying the sublime conditions while trying to reverse park his caravan on Cavenagh St, while sucking on a Mango smoothie, Along with my exhibition Shrine… I was out... »