Photo Vol. 120
Since I seem to be shooting both black and white and colour a lot now, I'm renaming these posts to simply Photo Vol. X. Seems more fitting and flexible.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 119
I've sent off my Leica M7 to be serviced at Camera Clinic in Melbourne. The shutter curtain is tapering the exposure on 1/1000th (and possibly 1/500th), not to mention the dust that has built up in the rangefinder eyepiece. So I'm without a 35mm lens on a 35mm film camera.
Read MoreA Photographer's Journal - May 2018
Hey, hi. It's been a little while since I wrote a decent photographer's journal. The truth is that the last few months have been a deeply personal wake up call, and has resulted in a fundamental shift in the relationship I have with photography as a form of artistic expression and why I want to practice it in my daily life.
Read MoreColour Vol. 3
My relationship to photography and being a photographer is changing a lot. I think in a lot of ways it could represent a maturity in my vision and an understanding of the purpose of photography within the larger context of my life. Now I feel like I've given myself the reins back and photography is sitting behind me, leaving a trail of breadcrumbs of life and art.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 118
So it turns out that acting class is like reaching behind the curtains right into the safe storage box of your personality and yanking out the person who is hiding there, kicking and screaming.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 117
It's convenient that my Rodinal and 35mm negative sleeves ran out by the time I was ready for a bit of a break from shooting black and white film non-stop for the last few months since returning from New Zealand. I'll be back into it all once I've got some new supplies.
Read MoreAll In A Day's Walk — Gallery Open Until May 26
The result is the All In A Day's Walk gallery which is on display now until May 26th at Racquet Film, 6/608 Brunswick St, New Farm in Brisbane. With Racquet's larger fine art printer at my disposal, I managed the printing of all A2 prints on Ilford's beautiful Gold Fibre Gloss paper.
Read MoreOn Documenting Street & Life
From my perspective, to be a street photographer is to be human and to seek out humanity, the absurdity of it, the chaos of it, the irony, the elation, the fleeting and the ever present, from a man smiling with me in Kyoto while busking, to a little girl in the act of throwing a ball in a backyard, to the tale of two bins taking on an anthropomorphised relationship.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 116
I'm working on a local gallery showing opportunity that has presented itself, which is exciting as someone who only recently got into printing last year and has never exhibited any work before at all. I feel busy and not busy at the same time as wrestling with personal battles and finding new purpose, and I frankly can't foresee the result of it all in the near future.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 115
I've been reading a lot about street photography and certain photographers over the last several weeks, from the revised edition of Bystander: A History Of Street Photography and Elliot Erwitt: Home Around The World, to ordering Joel Meyerowitz' new hardcover titled Where I Find Myself.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 114
Well, I finally shot my sixtieth roll of almost entirely Kodak TRI-X 400 black and white film since starting all this film nonsense at the start of 2017. What a ride. As for me and colour, we have unfinished business.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 113
It feels great to be shooting Tri-X again, from street photography to portraits to whatever else. I missed the process, the grain, the texture and the craft of it all. After coming back from New Zealand, the weather has been hot and muggy, so I've not gotten out for hiking at all despite plans to. Thankfully, it's Autumn now.
Read MoreBlack & White Vol. 112
I have been sitting on this post for a long while due to not shooting much black and white. These are a few months old or more but here they are none the less.
Read MoreNew Zealand Journal — Part 1
That doubt about why I was here has since disappeared, thanks to the experiences I had on that trek as well as my brief time in Milford Sound. I made a few unplanned landscape photographs on the trek, enjoyed the stunning views and delighted in conversations with other travellers, and that has rekindled my love for this kind of adventure without the need for social media to drive it.
Read MoreA Photographer's Journal - January 2018
I quit Facebook, and Twitter, and Snapchat all within a week and to put it in simple terms, I feel human again. I had lived my entire twenties with Facebook and Twitter, compounded by the newer social media networks that followed in their wake during that decade. I lived my entire twenties as a young, connected, digital adult, never bored and never fully present in the here and now.
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