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Photographer & Flâneur on un-ceded Kulin Nation lands ; with an iPhone, servant to 2 Devon Rex Kats
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On This Day. November 16, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2022
Melbourne's CBD, November 16 2013 14:48:59, Southbank in the background a yellow cab running through the middle ground. A textured wall in Kensington. 16 November 2017 17:40:40 There is text on the wall, 'colony' 'wooden mill' 'meter room' it reads, a number in the shape of a 4 leans agains the wall. There I a blue stone step in the foreground An outer suburban industrial park in Melbourne's west 16 November 2018 10:40:01. A chain mesh fence in the foreground, behind which as piles of stones and rocks. Atop these is a rusty steel sculpture of 2 dragons. An outer suburban shopping centre carpark, on November 16 2022 15:20:57. Text and signs break the image up not smaller picture here are 2 round about signs and a Target logo that echoes the roundabout signs. There is writing on the ground that says Library staff only.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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What a year 2020 was, on occasion we were allowed outside, these are from November, during the world's longest and harshest lockdowns. #photography #iphone #melbourne #2020
A multi-story mall interior masquerading as a spaceship terminal for the consumer sublime. Glass railings glint like polished promises, escalators ascend with algorithmic grace, and the skylight—an angular lattice of triangular panels—funnels daylight like divine retail nectar. Each level is a stage in the drama of acquisition, where storefronts blink and beckon beneath recessed lighting and metallic finishes. Red and pink decorations punctuate the neutral palette like capitalist confetti. The geometry is precise, almost smug, as if the building knows it’s photogenic. Verticality reigns—lines converge, perspectives stretch, and the whole space hums with the choreography of movement and desire. This isn’t just architecture; it’s a cathedral of curated impulses, a monument to the spectacle, where every reflection is a selfie waiting to happen. LEVEL 5 of the concrete labyrinth, where steel beams crisscross like the ribs of a sleeping giant and fluorescent lights hum the anthem of late-stage infrastructure. Diagonal supports slice the air like industrial calligraphy, while the ramp coils upward—a gray tongue leading to unknown altitudes. Parking bays stretch in neat rows, ritual spaces for the daily automotive pilgrimage. A chain-link fence divides zones like a bureaucratic veil, hinting at order but whispering containment. “EXIT” glows like a false prophet, promising escape but delivering only another level. The air smells of rubber and resignation. This isn’t just a garage—it’s a monument to motionless motion, a shrine to the parked and the waiting, where every echo is a ghost of acceleration. A ghost-path suspended above the arterial hush of lockdown-era Melbourne, where bicycles and pedestrians once danced in parallel lanes now haunted by absence. The fencing—green and black—feels like a polite barricade, a gesture of containment dressed as urban design. The white line down the center is a relic of movement, a memory of shared direction in a time of mandated stillness. Warehouses and power lines flank the route like silent witnesses, industrial sentinels watching the city skyline shimmer in the distance—untouched, unreachable, mythic. The air is thin with protocol. The sky, partly cloudy, wears its ambiguity like a mask. This elevated corridor becomes a liminal zone, a bridge between isolation and aspiration, where infrastructure dreams of footsteps and the city waits, paused mid-breath, for the return of the ordinary sublime.
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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From my archive. While wandering about. Melbourne has an amazing Arts precinct, there’s always lots to see and do.
Orange bollards delineate an area of the grounds outside the NGV, Melbourne, Australia. A pair of young women are caught edge of frame. The sky is blue and cloudless. The sculpture by Inge King’s Forward Surge, occupies the middle ground with apartment buildings behind that. The western forecourt of the National Gallery of Victoria, withe the Spiegeltent erected, it’s a bright sunny day and the blue sky is cloudless, surprisingly there are few people around in what is normally a busy spot. Inside the NGVIan Potter building an architectural marvel and a great place to get lost in.
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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The sun sets over Federation Square while people watch the big screen.
A cobblestone plaza in Melbourne glows under a golden sunset, transformed into a pop-up lounge of striped deck chairs and relaxed bodies—urban flâneurs soaking in the twilight. A towering Christmas tree wrapped in electric blue lights anchors the scene, flanked by high-rises and a construction crane that gestures toward futures still under assembly. Overhead, string lights crisscross like celestial coordinates, mapping leisure against the skyline. People recline, chat, or gaze skyward, their silhouettes soft against the amber light. The mood is festive but unhurried, a civic exhale at the edge of the year. In the distance, modern architecture and heritage spires mingle like temporal tourists. The whole tableau feels like a postcard from a parallel Melbourne—where time slows, chairs multiply, and the city briefly becomes a living room for strangers.
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Catch the train to the end of the line get off. Walk around. What do do you see? From my series Everything and Nothing, Werribee 2025-10-06 14:53:32
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Daylight saving begins, what better way to celebrate than staying out in the gorgeous late afternoon light, photographing’Everything & Nothing’.
October 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Swanston street, in he depths of what feels like a more brutal than usual winter from my series ‘Everything & Nothing’
July 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Infrastructure,infrastructure, infrastructure. From my series ‘Everything and Nothing’.
May 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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NGV West wall 2025-03-09 11:33:17. From my series “Everything & Nothing”
April 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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All the shadows. All the lines. All the geometry. From my new series ‘Everything & Nothing’.
#photography #urbanlandscape #suburbia #highpoint #shoppingcentre
April 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Dusk over the West Melbourne rail yards. From my new series ‘Everything & Nothing’. #photography #urbanlandscape #melbourne #light #magichour
March 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Actual real tea candles! And beer!
February 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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From my new series, 'Everything & Nothing'
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#photography #urbanlandscape #newnewtopographics
A hillside restoration or landscaping project showing numerous white protective sleeves for young plants or saplings arranged in rows. The sleeves are supported by wooden stakes and spread across a mulched slope. A concrete path or trail runs along the bottom of the slope, with a metal safety railing. There's a yellow warning or directional sign visible, and some graffiti-covered concrete walls in the background. The scene is set against a backdrop of mature eucalyptus and other trees under a clear blue sky, with power lines visible in the distance
February 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Current status? Slumming it in Sydney, nearly 900 kilometres from home!
The view of the Sydney harbour bridge from a nearby bar called Jane’s Squire hotel. The foreground is occupied by seating and umbrellas, fortunately all closed. To the extreme left partially cut by the frames edge a man in a high visibility shirt. The Sydney harbour bridge itself can be seen in the background along with parts of the North Shore. It’s an overcast day. Many excellent beers were drunk. Not in t is the opera house as the view is blocked by a fuck off huge cruise ship.
January 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Happy Summer Solstice folks, or winter if you're up north! #solstice
#photography #summer #decorations
A small figurine depicting Santa Claus on a surfboard wearing shorts and a Hawaiian shirt hangs from a display in a big box store in Australia, in the lead up to Christmas. I regret not buying it now!
December 20, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Summer Skies in Melbourne, Australia. #photography #summer #melbourne #skies #storm
Thunderous Melbourne skies, bring the threat of thunder storms, which in turn bring the danger of bush fires. There is a pocket of blue nestled amongst these heavy clouds. The clouds range from fluffy white dark grey and heavy. This year the weather feels more appropriate so I'm looking forward to a few hot days as a consequence.
November 27, 2024 at 4:11 AM
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Sunday Wanderings 3/3 #photograpy #UrbanLandscape #NewTopographics #WestsideBithces #melbourne #Victoria #australia
November 25, 2024 at 5:05 AM
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Sunday Wanderings 2/3 #photography #UrbanLandscapes #NewTopographics #melbourne #victoria #australia #WestSideBitches
November 25, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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Sunday wanderings 1/3 #photogrpahy #photogrpahers
bike path beside kororoit creek looking north west under market road, sunshine melbourne Victoria australia on Sunday the 24th November 2024. The sky is heavy with dark clouds and the area looks verdant given the recent rains An urban landscape in the style of the new topographies movement. There is the new bike path in the middle ground it has a junction near Geelong road, where the old bluestone bridge still exists. The foreground has a mound of gravel that leads to the concrete bike path. There is some native vegetation in the middle ground along with construction barriers. In the distance a mass planting has taken place, the type of vegetation unknown at this point. The sky is dark and heavy. Kororoit Creek from the old bluestone bridge facing north. The creek is running fast after the recent rains. There are weeds and native vegetation all around a car crosses the bridge on Geelong road. The sky is dark and heavy.
November 25, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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I decided to process this file differently. #photography #iphone
November 23, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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Abstraction #20241113 #photography #photo #iphone
November 13, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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Spending the day at the NGV for the 2024 Melbourne Art Book Fair. Swing by say hello. Here’s a couple of covers from 2 new Zines I’m selling this year.
Cover of a Zine titled Steps & Ladders a self published Zine 25 pages with 19 photographs Cover of my self published Zine, Trigger Warning 40 pages, with 30 images made during Melbourne’s Covid lockdowns 2020 to 2022.
May 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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Trollies everywhere is this is a #plague?
Abandoned shopping trolley on a suburban nature strip in Preston, Melbourne,Victoria, Australia. The nature strip is brown and bare the tree on the right barely alive the roads are quite for an early morning in suburban Melbourne the sky is bright and blue the weather typically Melbourne after a summer storm.
February 14, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Another good darkroom session.
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#AnaloguePhotography
#film
#SilverGelatin
November 28, 2023 at 3:32 AM
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Patterns.
#photography
#abstract
November 5, 2023 at 11:01 PM