Because we can...

This is my backyard and this is my fountain

Photos should be objects

At least that's what I think.  Once you've printed it it has a gravitas that a digital image with all its ephemerality doesn't.  

This is one of my favourite articles in a very long time:

http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/2009/01/the_twilight_of_the_color_phot.html#/1

I like my shoeboxes.

'A mirror with a memory'

So the road from here is pretty fuzzy, but I've started walking in the hopes that it becomes clearer.  Right now I'm interested in collections and the motivations behind creating collections; in nostalgia and the way we re-construct and edit our own histories; in patina and history; and in the division between reality and construction.  What is actually real?  Isn't the meaning of photographs a little like chinese whispers or like Stalin wiping out entire sections of histories to make it resemble what he wants it to instead of what it was.  Is part of the joy of being human being able to edit our own view of our past and other people's roles within it.  Selective memory, reconstituted memory, preservation of memory...  

This is a really interesting article: 

Photography changes how family history is constructed
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And parts of this are worth a thought to:

http://memophoto.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/the-memory-of-photography/#more-11

What exactly is anti-establishment?

Doesn't it require a consensus on what the establishment is?  I'm over-thinking this aren't I...  Since I can't figure out how to embed youtube videos or music yet, I leave you with this visual thinking music while I go away and try to do this thing.

DADA Schmada

This is a shot I took for my friend's album - The Bedroom Philosopher 'Brown and Orange' - which is out now if you've some spare pocket change and a fondness for incredibly intelligent, funny, awkward folk rock.

I've been thinking a lot about music in the face of the whole DADA thing.  I still don't have a handle it but I have been thinking a lot about punk and how much I still love it.  I have a shoot this afternoon and don't really have a clear idea about what I'm going to do, but my model gives good face and I've been listening to the Ears (an old Melbourne punk band) in anticipation of their upcoming reunion gig and in honour of the screening of Dogs in Space tonight.  Haven't heard the Ears?  Try this, it will make you so proud to be in Melbourne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZ4Oy-08Ws

And now for something completely different...

A dandy, a dandy, my kingdom for a dandy

These images were created in 2007 with stylist Michelle Boyd and the help of our lovely models.  I still love them to bits.

The lovely ladies of the Caravan of Love, August 2008

Avant guarde artiste Veruschka

The Magnificently Hairy Lady Elsie

The Lover Kati

And the Nightingale Madame Eva

Coming in from the cold

This is the gorgeous Lawrence Leung in a promo shot I took many years ago, but it seemed appropriate.