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sons and son (sun)

#flatpack kitchen #renovate #cats #ballan #northcote #nephew #spring #melbourne #35mm #analogue photography #family #friends #love

who was behind the makeover??

hand printed chromogenic prints from layering laser printed acetate negatives in the WetLab colour darkroom. everything is made in the dark, nothing is fixed until the paper exposed. experiments in reconfiguring, opacity and transparency, and seeing what happenssssss

this project was developed into a workshop for our vcass students to have a go at! extremely fun process!!

#chromogenic printing #colour darkroom #analogue photography #digital photography #cross processing #acetate #negatives #screenshots #cher #moorooduc highway shoe #facebook groups #tulip #horse

Tyabb (There's A Bird On The Horses's Butt But You Can't Really See It)

cyanotype on linen, using photos taken through binoculars and pieces of basil marc grew that then went to seed

#cyanotype #cyantype on fabric #horses #tyabb #victoria #basil #linen #melbourne #love

dad in the varda cinema shack, portugal

shot end of 2023, handprinted chromogenic print made in the colour darkroom by me at WetLab

i love colour darkrooooooooom

#35mm #colour film #analogue #colour darkroom #analogue printing #agnes varda #cinema shack #porto #portugal #cool dad #sunflowers

experiments with spectrolite, riso-photo with two and three colours

L: porto stairwell, sunflower and black ink, A4

R: fran in blue and violet, A6

printed with my lovely glom press

#riso #risophoto #risografica #photography #35mm #portugal #porto #francine #fran the cat #colour #experiments #spectrolite #risography

matching energies

porto, portugal in winter

#porto #portugal #35mm #film #colour film #winter #green #weeds #plants #same same but different

top: acknowledge, early 2023

bottom: teachers and school staff for palestine, september 2025

two+ years of sunday rallies, every week more horrors to protest.

#free palestine #rallies #sunday #melbourne #teachers and school staff for palestine #antigenocide teachers #protest #35mm

14 - 16 dogs in tokyo

#japan #travel #photography #35mm #film #35mm film

calm down room at the airport, children's library cafeteria

japan 2024

#japan #melbourne #35mm #children's library #film #analogue #diptych #green #autism awareness #airport #travel #quiet

moving house, finding little paintings and drawings from the last year of living alone

l: 11 tram floor, gouache on cardboard from the cat food delivery

r: cheersing pink flamingos with dan, coloured pencil on grey paper

#gouache #coloured pencil #small works #friends #solitude #melbourne #recycled materials #cardboard #personal #ephemera

still waiting for a school closure text, drawing from 2020 when everything in melbourne was closing down and everyone was told to work at home but teachers were still being asked to teach in person

coloured pencil on chemical stained photographic paper i pulled out of the bin in our darkroom - a student had exposed it accidentally, not said anything, and tried to stash it

i find this drawing every now and then when i move house and am reminded how strange a period that was - feeling like a sacrificial lamb in some ways and waiting for things to move on

#self portrait #coloured pencil #lockdowns #2020 #covid #melbourne #mixed media #darkroom photography #photographic paper #time warp

pages from a riso photo zine made with glom press

'duets' is A6, 16 page, three colour riso printed zine from 2024. it's hard to take a photo of because the colours are so vivid and confusing to my phone!

some of the images in this zine started as black and white 35mm and have been colourised, then distorted again through riso. experimenting with the spectrolite app!

some of the images started as colour 35mm

old images singing new songs beside new photos.

#riso #risophoto #risograph printing #35mm #analogue photography #melbourne