The focus of this page is a selection of my photographs of street images. It is a curated collection collated from those taken with my first digital camera to those captured with my most recently smart-phone device. This page will come to house the full collection that I am progressively releasing (have released) using Instagram – some 60 digital photographs of street edited posters and graffiti style images.
Some are pieces of street art that have caught my eye, for some reflections and refractions create an interesting trick of the light, while many derive from posters that have weathered away, exposing layers beneath of previous posters, assembling sometimes weird juxtapositions and composite images. Sometimes passers-by have ripped or torn at the poster while other times the random abrasions of the elements seem to make oblique comments or exhibit unintentional irony. Whether intentional or not the street edits the images in ways that reflect and refract the social context of their time and in that way make available a fresh view of our collective concerns and preoccupations.
Title: An Urban Dryad
There is a haunted eloquence to this bleached and weather-beaten poster fragment, exposing the wood grain beneath.
Year: 2007
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: Anime Manga
This fine fellow was spotted in Newtown over a decade ago – long since painted over.
Year: 2006
Camera: Nokia 6300
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Title: Asian Ripple
The intensity survives, despite several layers above, partially stripped back in a very interesting pattern.
Year: 2008
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: AY
Abstract image with the enigmatic alphas – initials, acronym, truncated word, part name?
The street knew, we never will …
Year: 2007
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
Title: Binary Rip
A tear in the fabric, a pixelated glimpse, a haunted glance from behind the curtains of the street.
Year: 2008
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: Blokes
Men at play, men at odds? A hint of fun; a glimpse of menace: the street is an ambiguous place.
Year: 2008
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: Blonde Chaos
Sometimes the street just gets messy. Tangled chaos – maybe there’s a story here, maybe it just is.
Year: 2007
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: Blood Angel
A fearsome street angel arises on a freeway underpass – vengeance or sacrifice? Either way this figure presents a disquieting perspective.
Year: 2005
Camera: Nokia 6300
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Title: Blue Enigma
A portrait in blue, heavily edited into abstract obscurity by the street.
Year: 2007
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: Blue Mask
After the Masquerade, masks are torn aside and the base brick of reality revealed.
Year: 2008
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: Blue Storm
Calm in the face of the elements which have weather-edited the image.
Year: 2008
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: BrickView
A defiant stare from the space between torn paper chaos and brick hard solidity.
Year: 2008
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: Confection
Laughing as the sweet image of reality cracks, twists and tears into a bizarre confection.
Year: 2008
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: CracklePop
The blistering decay of an image coming unglued.
Year: 2007
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
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Title: Crazy Diamond Shine
A consistent texture of dripping metallic graffiti catches and reflects the camera flash, bringing light into a dark corner.
Year: 2009
Camera: SONY DSC-P8
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