A Professional History
Warragul Arts Studios and Gallery, a local contemporary art gallery, is celebrating its 5th anniversary. As part of the event, I have been asked to give a talk about my career in the arts. Preparing for the talk has given me an excuse to reflect on my unlikely professional history and how luck, curiousity, the […]
Learning to speak photography
Generally, families have one main photographic collection to preserve their memories and history. In fact, I have two: a collection of private memories and a collection that documents my activities as a working photographer. The private collection has the standard snapshots: ones of children (whose names we have long forgotten) brightly smiling behind a series of birthday […]
Audrey Hepburn has gone missing
We were visiting a friend in Vancouver, Canada and I was exploring the city. There was a commercial gallery selling studio portraits of Hollywood stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. I entered the gallery. It was a large, brightly lit space. Framed black and white photographs were displayed in single rows on the walls. As a serious student of […]