LookSee

Brisbane, Australia, November 25th – January 22nd:  A bit of shameless self promotion here , but if your in Brisbane over the next couple of months, go check out SmallWorks Gallery… I’m privileged to be included in the inaugural opening groupshow- “LookSee”- with some very esteemed company.  Recent works from the series “Quarantine” and “Bad […]

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Lake Alice

Lake Alice, Rangitikei, NZ, Nov 2011:  Lake Alice Hospital was a notorious rural psychiatric facility that operated from 1950 up untill it’s closure in the late 1990’s… It was self-sufficient with its own farm, bakery, glass houses and vegetable gardens . It could accomodate up to 900 people in various buildings spread over it’s 56 […]

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Slavonia

East Slavonia, Croatia, 2002:  On the road to Vukovar, the most devastated city in Europe since World War II. The Balkan’s version of Stalingrad. I was just about to end up in a rather difficult situation…  See what happened next…      Olympus XA2  

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Ex Education

Erskine College, Wellington, NZ, Oct 2011:  The Convent of the Sacred Heart- or Sacré Coeur- was a Catholic girls boarding school built in 1905/06.     From the late 60’s it was known as Erskine College– until it’s fateful closure in 1985.Today only the main building and chapel are in good order. My mother went […]

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Quarantine

The former Fever/Chest Hospital, Wellington, October 2011:  The Fever Hospital was built by the Wellington Hospital Board in 1919 for the treatment of infectious diseases. In the 1940’s tuberculosis broke out so the hospital primarily focused it’s treatment on TB patients. I found out in discussions with my father,that my great Aunt Patricia spent some […]

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Underwood

Karori Cemetary, Wellington, October 2011:  A venture into Karori cemetary with Simon to do test shots with flash (I had a wedding shoot to pratice for), inevitably ended up in shooting lots of gravestone pictures- in particular angels- of course…   Canon EOS 30D/EF 24-105 f4 L IS 

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