These layouts represent how the Exhibition Prints are presented. There are 6 large prints being hung as well as 4 diptychs each mounted on 10mm archival gatorboard.
All large prints and the diptychs are limited to three numbered prints each (plus 2 Artist Proofs). My email contact is at the bottom of the page if you wish to place an order. The price list is at the end of this gallery.

Australia's Ocean Baths were originally built to safely wet and cool the citizens on...
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These layouts represent how the Exhibition Prints are presented. There are 6 large prints being hung as well as 4 diptychs each mounted on 10mm archival gatorboard.
All large prints and the diptychs are limited to three numbered prints each (plus 2 Artist Proofs). My email contact is at the bottom of the page if you wish to place an order. The price list is at the end of this gallery.

Australia's Ocean Baths were originally built to safely wet and cool the citizens on hot summer days. Today, along with the ebbing edges of the Pacific Ocean, they hold memories and remnants of past living and lives.

Coastal pools like these at Newcastle and Merewether Beaches are spread along the East Coast of Australia. They are often nostalgic places - especially in times of special light. Early mornings; warm, soft dusks; bright, hot afternoons and cold, weather-beaten nights.

The worn, whitewashed steps have seen the same feet skip and later shuffle, growing from tiny & soft to gnarled and wide. Parents, holding small, excited hands, have nurtured the tentative steps of offspring beginning their own memories. These places are community - gatherings of clans and friends.

The Newcastle and Merewether Ocean Baths are very familiar to my camera. I don't live nearby any more, however, when I visit it's enough for me to sit with eyes closed and let the sounds and scents refresh those slideshows in my mind.

I've made images for long enough to know many of the rules of my craft. It's that knowledge that helps me break a few of them from time to time. With these pictures I used an unusual lens arrangement and techniques to selectively blur and emphasise. I hoped to find pictures that suited memories of special places. Perhaps a little embellished, with some 'facts' less defined but always a steady centre of truth - even as time separates now from then.
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