Photo Stories
The 1970’s provided extraordinary level of freedom in cultural and media production for my passion and creative hunger. The decade of TRACKS surfing magazine contributions, where stories and photography were our stock in trade. Road showing of surfing movies, along surfing communities and on coastlines introduced me to otherness in circus, showman and fellow travellers.
Later developments in conducting long form interviews with Mother Teresa (in Bourke), Sir Laurens van der Post (in Cairns), Hell’s Angel leaders (in Coolangatta), Dr John Lilly (in Los Angeles) and Dr Scott McVay (Tokyo) informed ‘otherness’ insights that echo through my formative years on waterfronts, within subcultures and ‘ways of seeing’.
Travel down unknown pathways, engagements with new and interesting folks has sustained the way for five decades. The Road is like ''carriage of fire'' as a symbol of hope. I live for ways to do better.
Community engagement, the regional cultural development projects (aside from portrait, landscape and architectural series) are based on asking first "is there a need for this idea". We put the audience at the front end of the production process, providing citizens with a voice for art that meets their need. This global paradigm shift, is utilised across 16+ counties, mostly across Europe predominantly in France and Germany.
The Approach is democratic - For over forty years this way of
Beyond the norms, road journeys into varied cultures has steeped two masterworks as artist/curator in residence to the north Australia (the Cattle Life Project) and then, again across the Capricornia region of north eastern Australia through the Heartland series.
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Heartland Chronicles combines photographs and stories from both these major investments is north Australia people and places.
