January 2012
Welcome to the new year! Andy Adams has overhauled his Flakphoto website, kicking off with a feature on Hijacked II , which leads with my plate of beans photograph.
November 2011
The excellent series of memento mori exhibitions DEATH BE KIND, is about to have its last opening. I was lucky enough to show some works from my archive there, earlier this year. The final exhibition, "The rest is silence", launches at 6pm November 8th and one of my pieces will be in the mix. At the same time, the new online photography magazine Excerpt, which along with Lou Hubbard I have been a supporter of, is launching. 6pm at 20 Meyers Place.
Lastly, Oliver Schneider at Actual Color May Vary has posted a great write up on my Unknown Land series.
October 2011
Some of the photographs from Unknown Land have been featured in the new Thames & Hudson book, Characters by Stephen Banham , which explores Melbourne's culture through its rich typography.
I have also created a new section on this site, Wunderkammer, which I will be adding to over the coming months.
September 2011
A large selection of work from Unknown Land is featured in the inagural issue of online publication, Timemachine. The themed magazine features work from Australian and international photographers. The first edition Home,includes: Rob Hornstra, Sohrab Hura,
Ingvar Kenne, Katrin Koenning, Mary Beth Meehan, Graham Miller, me and Zoe Strauss.
I'm very happy to announce that the State Library of Victoria has purchased a selection of prints from Unknown Land and other works for their collection.
July 2011
I am part of the exhibition The Gravity of the Situation, at the Monash University Art & Design Faculty Gallery. The show includes the work of fellow photographers Kristian Haggblom, Siri Hayes and Georgia Metaxas amongst others, and has been organised to raise funds for post disaster reconstruction initiatives in Japan. For more information please go here. The show runs till July 19th.
I will be in Perth for the launch of Hijacked II , at the John Curtin Gallery and will be giving
a talk at the gallery on Friday 22nd July @ 12.30pm.
15th May 2011
I will be part of a panel discussion at Printed & Bound, "An afternoon exploring small publishing and bookmaking for artists and photographers" at the Monash Gallery of Art on 29th May at 2pm.
3 works from Unknown Land are on display at the Samstag Museum in Adelaide as part of Hijacked II till 1st July.
Bad Driving is now available for purchase directly from the publishers Erm Books and will be available in bookshops shortly.
6th May 2011
Bad Driving (my first Australian release!) will be launched at Metropolis Bookshop in Melbourne between 6-8pm on Tuesday 10th May. The book which is a documentation of minor car accidents, has been published by the lovely people at Erm Books who have just opened a new independent press bookstore in the Thornbury.... Perimeter Books.
28th April 2011
"Fabuloso Fashion Show of the Fonatana de Treve Boutique 1986" a selection of photographs
from the Porter Archive will be shown as part of the Better Than Art exhibition at Kings Ari monday 2nd May.
20th April 2011
I'm one of the featured artists in the latest edition of Weisser Salon.
10th March 2011
I will be showing a selection of made and found photographs at Death Be Kind in Melbourne from 15th March to 3rd April.
13th February 2011
Doubleplusgood Books (UK) have published a small book of images from my Australian Colour series.
1st September 2010
The Canberra leg of the Hijacked exhibition will launch at the Australian National University at 6pm on Wednesday 8th September and runs through until the 25th. For more details click here
16th August 2010
Apologies for being slack on the news front, but I've been back in the field working on my next
projects. I did however notice a nice review of 100-Flowers on the Photo Eye website.
28th May 2010
The latest Big City Press book, Hijacked II Australia and Germany edited by Marcus Schaden, Ute Noll and Mark McPherson and featuring photographers such as Jens Liebchen, Oliver Sieber, Narelle Autio, Polixeni Papapetrou and myself is launching on June 10th at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.
13th February 2010
A print of mine will be auctioned at this year's fundraiser for the Monash Gallery of art
Other artists include, Roger Ballen, Deborah Paauwe and Mark Kimber.
St. Arnaud 2009
archival pigment print
40 x 50cm
edition of 10
11th January 2010
I'll be giving a talk at the City Gallery on Saturday 23rd at 12.00pm as part of the Record and Analysis exhibition (110 Swanston Street).
9th November 2009
Big month! Firstly, I've created a temporary archive at the City Gallery here in Melbourne, it's
called Record and Analysis and features Engineering photographs from the 1940's-80's held in the city's heritage collection, and works from my own archive. It opens this Wednesday 6-7.30pm and runs till Jan 30th.
Secondly, Paris based publishers LozenUP have just released a limited edition publication of my "100 Flowers" series. Produced during a residency in Beijing at the Redgate Gallery in 2008. For more information please go to the website
1st September 2009
I was invited to be part of the mus-mus project @ Paris, the results of which are now online.
17th August 2009
A selection of images from "Escalator" is featured in the New Zealand based magazine Pie Paper and can be bought online from their website.
7th August 2009
"Australian Colour" opens at the Monash Gallery of Art 3pm this Saturday and runs through
till 13th September.
27th June 2009
There is an interview with me by journalist Michael Green, along with some images
from "Cheap Flights" in the current issue of The Big Issue.
4th June 2009
"Cheap Flights" is on show at show at the Centre For Contemporary Photography in Melbourne until 2nd August.
20th May 2009
I've updated the site with a selection from I Love China ... So Do You .
8th April 2009
A portfolio of photographs from the Wires at Night series is on display at the Kazari gallery
in Melbourne till the end of the month.
4th February 2009
I've been a bit slow in posting this, but if you can find a copy of the latest WON magazine, there are two full bleed images from "I Love China ... So Do You" . The full set will go up on the site later in the year.
27th January 2009
I am one of the featured artists in The Collector's Guide to Emerging Art Photography, which
will soon be released by the New York based Humble Arts foundation. It's a source book for arts industry profesionals. To receive a complimentary copy please register here.
17th December 2008
A presentation of images depicting the humble poster, commissioned by the City of Melbourne, is on display at the City Gallery over the festive season. Go to the Town Hall on Swanston Street.
1st December 2008
Curated by Laurence Vecten of LOZ blog and designed by Pierre Hourquet, a little electronic book of my "Wires at Night" is now at the french site Booksonline.
26th November 2008
I was one of the 75 photographers invited to take part in the @600 project organised by
the Swiss group Mus-Mus the results of which are now up.
2nd September 2008
I've put the first of three sets from Beijing up "Wires at Night" .
18th August 2008
I'm back working in Melbourne.
14th July 2008
I'm showing some work from the Australian Colour series in the group show Interior-Exterior at 3-Space gallery in the 798 district of Beijing until 7th August , if you are there and want directions please email me.
10th July 2008
I've guest curated the latest online gallery at Australian website nownow , there is also an interview with me to read.
29th June 2008
A portrait from the Mound bayou series has been shortlisted for this years Olive Cotton Award. Tweed River Art Gallery 8th August - 21st September.
I'm in Beijing right now on an Australia China Council residency, I can be reached via email or if it is urgent +86 13161331750
1st May 2008
Welcome to the new site! May sees me and fellow photographer Georgia Metaxas fixing up a new studio in Collingwood as well as getting ready for my residency in Beijing.
