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I asked ChatGPT to review my colour photo
June 15, 2025
The street is honest. It does not lie. It’s not always clean and pretty. It doesn’t wait for you. It comes at you quickly.
It’s the man drinking a goon bag on the 109 tram at 11am. It’s the kicked in window of a tobacco shop. It’s a moment of…
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Has Street Photography Lost Its Soul?
October 19, 2024
It is possible that street photography had no soul to begin with
Or that it made a deal with the devil around the time Instagram was birthed. Perhaps on a dark and cloudless night, Lucifer made a pact: ‘I will make you Insta famous and bathe you in an avalanche…
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Postcards From a Quiet Place
October 10, 2024
My wife was born in Hungary, a landlocked country in Central Europe, and I feel as though I’ve adopted her nationality by proxy.
Her family lives in Pilis, a town 45 minutes’ east of the nation’s capital, Budapest, and we try to visit at least once a year. When we…
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Is Street Photography a Waste of Time?
September 8, 2024
Street photography is hard. To those of us who take photographs on the street, that statement won’t be revelatory. But photography has often been regarded as one of the simplest of art forms, mainly, I guess, due to its low barrier to entry (most people have a camera). The ubiquity…
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Photographing Your Neighbourhood
August 26, 2024
Footscray is one suburb westward from where I live. I haven’t been shooting in Footscray much in recent months, preferencing the CBD instead, but this week I made a conscious effort to go there every day. The beautiful light and early winter sunsets made the decision an easy one.
I’m…
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