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Implanted devices and broken cameras

September 13, 2015April 7, 2016 by DDS

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I officially finished my last shift at APN Australian Regional Media in mid-August, but, I published my last work with the company yesterday. [caption id="attachment_275" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] My feature as it appeared in Australian Regional Media's Weekend magazine.[/caption] Late last year a friend contacted me and asked me if I…

Panoramas

May 12, 2015April 7, 2016 by DDS

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I probably love and appreciate the panorama function on the iPhone more than most people. Back in the early noughties I used to painstakingly stitch individual photos together using an early version of Photoshop. The results are far from perfect, but I thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience. Yes, Trevis is…

798 art district, Beijing

March 7, 2014April 7, 2016 by DDS

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I didn't visit 798 on my first trip to Beijing. In fact, I didn't even know it existed at that stage. That was was 2003. I was poking around the internet a couple of years later and came across two interesting things in Beijing. The first was a vast system…

A photographer returns to Fukushima

February 12, 2013September 12, 2013 by DDS

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Meet Pete. We used to skate together around Redcliffe in the early and mid-nineties. We drifted apart in the late nineties but then in 2003 we made contact via one of those “schoolyard-chums” websites only to discover we were both living in Japan. I was teaching English in Tokyo –…

Japan: Now and then.

May 5, 2012 by DDS

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[caption id="attachment_77" align="alignnone" width="737" caption="When it comes to Japan, the new and the old collide on so many levels."][/caption] I did promise to create a spectacular series of animated antique Japanese photographs. And I still plan to complete this project. But in the meantime, I decided to do a quick…

Treasure chest of images

May 1, 2012May 1, 2012 by DDS

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[caption id="attachment_65" align="alignright" width="213" caption="Three unknown people in an unknown location."][/caption] When I lived in Japan I'd always enjoy the markets held at the temples. They sold all kinds of weird and wonderful one-off items. Visiting one such market with my cousin in Osaka, we came across this giant box…