Old Work
The East Kimberley # 2
I’ve had a few e-mails asking for another look at that cave in the East Kimberley, as well as directions. Ok …you arrive in Kunnanura, drive south, turn left, get bogged in soft sand, let your tyres down, drive around in circles for a few hours, get bogged again look up in despair and there... »
The mighty Bruce…
I can’t even begin to remember how many times I traveled up and down the Bruce Highway, mostly in cars that should have been in a wreckers yard but somehow found it in them for just one more trip down to the Gold Coast, this was taken on Crooked Creek near a little town... »
They seek him here they seek him there…
As we all get used to a world with out OBL, it came as no suprise to me that he was found in Pakistan, after all I found him there myself a couple of times… In Peshawar and in Quetta But check out John Stanmeyer’s blog , he found him a few more times than me. »
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... »
I’m big in Norway…
Trawling through more old negs at the request of Dave Bowen who is shivering in Norway working on his book “Wasted”, which proves that his 1990’s spent endlessly shooting the beautiful people of Europe were very different to mine spent shooting the self described FBI ( Forgotten Bastards of the Inland ). »
I like your old stuff better than your new stuff!
Some old stuff from Mt Isa , Cloncurry and Saxby Downs »
I…(don’t) want my Kodachrome.
The last roll of Kodachrome has been borne, mournfully on the shoulders of giants to the last processing lab in the world, posts lamenting the decline and fall of the greatest light capturing emulsion ever made are running thick and fast. I shot my last roll of Kodachrome in 1993 , the last of hundreds... »
How to roll a smoke with only 6 fingers
The wet season – time on my hands , time to have a look through the past and see how things measure up , going through old negs I found this series from 1990…Yep 20 years ago. Before the road into the Simpson desert splits sending you to either Bedourie or Birdsville, you... »
Random Pan # 3 This time last year.
I was standing in front of the ruined Ambakang Hotel, downtown in the Sumatran city of Padang this time last year, I remarked to my friend Ed Wray as we photographed the rescuers searching in vain for survivors, how remarkable it was, in all the chaos, destruction and death that a stack... »
Random Pan # 1
I’ve been enjoying the series of xpan photos that my friend Stephen Alvarez has been showing on his picture story blog here The xpan has been a constant companion on the passenger seat since 2002 and has definitely seen better days but she is on the way south for her annual check up , overhaul... »