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Aug 26, 2021

Hearts and minds: writing climate change.

Do you remember that photograph: the boy in the boat in the holiday waters? Do you remember #Mallacootafires ? I had already forgotten. When I mentioned this, others too had forgotten. How?! The funeral pyre of a wilderness, the utter condemnation of a society that allowed climate change, the bravery…

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Hearts and minds: writing climate change.
Hearts and minds: writing climate change.

Published in CARDIGAN STREET

·Jun 1, 2021

Dear Photographer: Please shut up

Making the case for subject voice in narrative photography captions. CW: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this article contains names and images of people who may have passed away. Nancy Newhall’s essay ‘The caption’ (1952) sees her generation of narrative photographers on the brink of a new world: the rise of the wordless book of…

Photobook

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Dear Photographer: Please shut up
Dear Photographer: Please shut up

Published in CARDIGAN STREET

·Sep 22, 2020

No fire without fuel: how conflict creates narrative tension.

A response to Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu I have native grains in my field, myrnong in my vegetable garden. I want to know Dark Emu’s story. A difficulty arises: Can I asses the use of landscape for surely it’s fixed in landscape? Can I assess the use of chronology for surely a history demands chronology? …

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No fire without fuel: how conflict creates narrative tension.
No fire without fuel: how conflict creates narrative tension.

Dec 23, 2019

Two days until Christmas 2019

The colours are so subtle, the English couturists of the early 20th century had to turn to the French nomenclature, as their own language had failed them: eau de Nil, ecru, vielle rose, champagne, beige, taupe, verdigris, bleu francais, nue. The colours of a pre-teen girl’s unicorn pillows, a garden…

Bushfire

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Two days Before Christmas, 2019
Two days Before Christmas, 2019
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