Earlier this year I participated in a month long residency at the BigCI in Bilpin NSW. In this time I developed my Trash Camera practice into a new and unexpected direction. The idea behind the cameras is simple: if photography is a way of looking at the world, what happens when the camera itself becomes part of the story? I build large-format camera obscurae from discarded urban materials, using objects that have already had a life, a purpose and, often, an environmental cos

I am about to begin an art residency at Strathnairn Arts, and my first step is not to build a new Trash Camera, but to explore the area, its landscape and tostart looking. These photographs are my first encounter with the place through one of my existing trash cameras, whihc are an improvised camera obscura made from discarded urban waste. This camera is intentionally difficult to use and forces a slow down and engagement with the subject. It is unpredictable and deeply con

Join me on the Journey of how Colour Night Photography Launched My Creative Journey in the 1980's. Colour night photography is what got me started on my creative photography journey in the 1980's. Till then there was very little night photography and almost no colour nght photography. I was inspired by Californian trail blazer Arthur Ollman. Sometimes magic happens and so it did with this photograph, complete with washed up coke bottle. In the 1980's colour film technology