Farm Ridge/Bogong
The base photograph for this image was recorded along the now-overgrown Farm Ridge Fire Trail, at the top of a climb up from the Tumut River and several kilometres north of the ruins of the Farm Ridge Hut. It looks…
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Category Exhibitions
Doubtful
The place names of the Snowy Mountains region have always seemed very special. For me at least, they have a romantic, even magical resonance in their sounds and the feelings that they evoke. Names like ‘Bogong’, ‘Monaro’, ‘Crackenback’, ‘Dead Horse…
Behold, my land is before you – Monaro ‘textscape’
The inclusion of text with this panoramic Monaro landscape image (along the Jindabyne-Dalgety road) fundamentally alters the image. From being simply a view of a specific rural landscape with a fence, a stark bare tree and a distant line of…
Ten-Mile Stare – Monaro ‘textscape’
This image has much in common with the previous Willy Gray picture. The base image was taken at the same time and location (mid-winter 2012 near Dalgety in the Monaro region of NSW). It’s a little more colour-saturated, and although…
Willy Gray – Monaro ‘textscape’
The text incorporated in this Monaro landscape image (three original photographs taken near Dalgety) is from The Monaro – a poem by David Campbell (reproduced in his Collected Poems). The full verse is: “Willy Gray has a lover’s eye and…
No message
I’ve been reading a little about the functions and mechanisms by which ‘signs’ (in the broadest sense of the word) operate. Icon, index and symbol, and the often impenetrable language of the semioticians. But some of the most obvious and…
Winter Postcards exhibition
PhotoAccess is currently showing an exhibition of work by no less than 32 photographers. It’s called Winter Postcards, and as the name suggests all of the works must be postcard size (i.e. 6″ x 4″), with each exhibitor able to…
Sekala exhibition
My exhibition (Sekala: ritual and ceremony in Bali) continues at PhotoAccess here in Canberra (PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery in Manuka, at the corner of Manuka Circle and NSW Crescent) until next Sunday 11 March. The experience of putting on my…