September 13, 2015 feature | journalism | photography | video DDS

Implanted devices and broken cameras

I officially finished my last shift at APN Australian Regional Media in mid-August, but, I published my last work with the company yesterday.

May 12, 2015 iphone | Japan | panorama | photography DDS

Panoramas

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 indeed wearing a Vanuatu island […]

March 7, 2014 798 | art | beijing | china | issuu | photography DDS

798 art district, Beijing

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 of tunnels that had been […]

February 12, 2013 3-11 | earthquake | fukushima | interview | Japan | Pete Leong | photography | tsunami DDS

A photographer returns to Fukushima

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 – everyone knew Japan’s capital – […]

May 5, 2012 final cut pro | Japan | past | photography | Tokyo | video DDS

Japan: Now and then.

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 edit (in Final Cut Pro) that juxtaposes the new and old of Japan. Watch in full-screen mode to properly savour the HD goodness. And […]

May 1, 2012 antique | Final Cut Studio | Japan | Motion | photography DDS

Treasure chest of images

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 of assorted black and white photographs that was being offloaded at a bargain price. We split […]