WORDS – Essays

WORDS includes examples of my writing – from artist statements to lectures, speeches, and essays. Though never considering myself a writer, as an image maker I nevertheless need to and enjoy writing.

My introductory text for TARKINE, a book of contemporary words and images on the Tarkine wilderness region of north-western Tasmania. Published by the WWF and Allen & Unwin, September 2004.

My thoughts on education, far away places, photography and my role as an educator from my Daintree 2017 Workshop, Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia.

An account of my artistic collaboration with Robert Besanko and my digital re-mastering of his images for ‘Contemplations’, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, from December 2012 to December 2013.

An introduction to our 2018 Education Programs, their history, partner organisations and sponsors.

Life lessons on making pictures that matter beyond our own self interest, 2016.

When works leave our possession they take a little piece of us with them, or if you like, when we leave places where we once lived and worked, a little piece of us remains behind, and we often have to return to those places to reclaim that part of ourselves.

An abridged version of the original paper presented at the SHOT program of exhibitions and forums in September to October 1992, and subsequently published by the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia.

My response to the ongoing suffering of those struggling with Adobe Photoshop, and the subsequent effect this has on their personal and artistic confidence.

A critique of the phenomenology of contemporary digital image editing. First published in Photofile No. 60 August 2000 by the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.

First published in Artlink March 2005: The Handmade, edited by Kevin Murray.

First published in Photofile No. 66  September 2002 by the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.

An essay in support of those otherwise well people who have momentarily lost their way despite no shortage of love and devotion to their craft. March 2023