John Boyd Macdonald
John Boyd Macdonald
18 Nov 2012: Everyone knows that the weather can quickly turn nasty in the High Country. When Karen and I walked out from Charlotte Pass in the early afternoon, crystal sunshine cheered us along at first, warming up as we…
Ghosts in the photographs Ghosts in the survivor’s testimony Ghosts in the fading street video Sudden slides and stops in the story The jumps jar Genewein the model bureaucrat Genewein the fotoamator Genewein the Nazi piper, leading a dead dance…
I met ‘The Land’ in a dream. He looked to be about 35, average height, with dark hair slicked back from a smooth broad forehead, pencil-thin moustache and sideburns. Good teeth. He was wearing a shiny blue suit, pastel pink…
The Dutch said it first. Around 1500, they began to use the noun landschap to describe a new kind of artwork depicting ‘natural inland or coastal scenery’. It spread to use in other Germanic languages (e.g. as lantscaf, landschaft, landskap),…
This image depicts a section of road between Dalgety and Jindabyne in the Monaro region of NSW. Prior to the arrival of the first European colonists in the 1820s this region was Ngarigo country. They ranged widely over the region,…
I had a great trip recently, snowshoeing from Crackenback (above Thredbo) to Mt Townsend. It was mid-week (no-one else out there), there had been about 20cm of fresh snow the night before (creamy smooth snow with no tracks) and the…
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…
This post contains some thoughts on the incorporation of text in still photography, and was written as notes for my Private Thoughts in Public Places project. Text and images have been combined in art since writing was first used. Written…