There are so much I wanna type about but not sure where to start, so this may be a long entry.



the weekend was fantastic, probably one of the better one I have had in a long time, not because it was jam-packed with thing to do or shit like that but I felt satisfied with what happened, what I did and all that hebey-jebey.


so on Friday night I was planning what I was going to do on Sat, I had this grand plan to go to Pyrmont and photograph building and landscapes, but this idea soon changed. Upon my travels on YouTube I came across a documentary, on Photojournalism, this documentary and recent events changed my mind.


Part one : [link]
Part two: [link]
Part Three: [link]

Then later on I found a website where these photojournalist all were and there works, Oculi [link]


This type of photography a mix between portraiture and street photography but still having some sense of intimacy and a closeness towards the subject, of a total stranger has made such an impression on me, I dunno why but it just captures me in the moment. Perhaps it’s the fact that they have people captured in a moment of time.


But before all this I thing the spark in the kindling was, and must be Mike Mander ‘s street photos. Now trying not to sound like I wanna get in Mike’s pants and making sure that I don’t come across as.. ahhh fuck it…

Mike’s work on this is just phenomenal and it show me a part of this city that we do see, but choose to forget and ignore, hoping someone with a more generous heart or bigger shovel will fix all the problems with this city. I know I have done it, more times that I would like to admit. SO all these forces and factors press some button in my head, flicked some switch which I am still trying to figure out what it does and why now and all those questions Gandhi couldn't even answer himself.

I said Screw taking photos of well-off overpaid inner-city yuppies living in apartments where weekly rent is somewhere in the $1,550 mark. I went to all the ‘done before’, cliché tourist venues, on a mission. To look at the people who make up this city.


so on Saturday I basically went walk-a-bout, going from venue to venue, place to place looking at what people look at, trying to capture a moment in time, you just can’t do that shit with a photo of a monumental building some 200m high. Traveling back and forth form Town Hall to Circular Quay and all POI in-between, going to darling harbor and Hyde Park and all that crud that a tourist does when they visit this city. I had no plan, just a mission, leave when you have filled all my cards or ran out of batteries.

I noticed something on Saturday, I noticed that the people who walk around this city are just as beautiful as the city it’s self.


Now I’ve been uploading the photos of my adventures but I know that they are no match compared to the photos of Mike Mander and Dean Seawell, mine are pretty poo, I know it , and people out there don’t say they aren’t, I understand why you do but you’re just being nice, not honest, and I want to make my photos better. Or at least attempt to, so tell me if they are poo or crap. That being said, I still will continue to take these photos, that is until someone with a sharp implement or a hash threat come along demanding I cease this at once
Well I’m going to stop blabbering on about me going around the city like a tosser and all my pretentious sounding ramblings of a I’ll informed youth.

PS: if you do end up going to Oculi please look at dean Seawell’s work on ‘The bock’