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'Last year I learned how to be my own person and to tune out anyone who was affecting my progress. Realising they’re not on the same path as I am, or have the same values as I do. It's good to sit back and look at your situation and assess what you really need and what puts you forward. Some people and situations have been engrained but sometimes you have to admit you’re on your own journey.'
Photographed at The Porch Sessions, on 120mm film.
‘We’re born and raised in Townsville. With a country lifestyle. Country music songs are about my life. As you get older it grows on you.’
Photographed at CMC Rocks
‘Why do you love country music?’ ‘I just love the sound of it. It’s so mellow.’
Photographed at CMC Rocks
'She fell in love with country music and I live with her so she made me listen to it all the time. Now it's all we play in our house. Have a sing-a-long, have some beers, do a shooey and you're good!'
Photographed at CMC Rocks
‘It all comes down to cheese.’
'I think humans are the best thing about this whole thing. There’s so much to be said for music and spaces and the counterpoint of those things, but that would mean nothing without incredible humans. The cool thing about this, is that it exposes people in spaces where they’re vulnerable and spaces where they’re comfortable, and everything in between. To be exposed to meeting so many people is a pretty damn cool thing. I’ve never seised to be amazed by how generous and wise people are.'
- Sharni, organiser of The Porch Sessions.
‘I go back to my family home whenever I can. It’s out in Dalby. There’s this back deck, it’s on the edge on the town and it’s so peaceful. I just go and sit, look out at the backyard and the clothesline and the shed. That is home. It’s so relaxing and centering.’
- Stu Larsen, musician
‘Whatever mood I’m in, it will totally dictate how someone looks and what kind of personality that person looks like in a photograph. You’re doing it every day, it’s a piece of you, and once something becomes part of the furniture you don’t realise how easily you affect it.’ - Morgan, photographer
RACHEL is a former full-time foster carer who lives in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. She is a hidden gem, unaware of her naturally giving and humble disposition. Having opened her home to over eighty foster children in her thirteen years of caring, her house is built to raise children. It’s built of brick and surrounded by an orchard, a vegetable patch, chickens and beehives. But inside the walls of her home echo stories of hope and heartbreak.
‘I love reading, and in Jo’s Boys by Louisa Alcott, Jo had a boys’ home. It was from that moment on that I wanted to have a lot of kids, and fostering eventuated from that.
In her own time, Rachel pieces together huge puzzles - her pride and joy is a 9,000-piece Tower of Babel which is hung by the front door. She also travels into the city once a week for ballroom dancing. A bright array of handmade ball gowns weigh down a clothing rack in her room.
‘I use animals for kids as much as possible. When I got this one boy, he was desperate to be around other kids, but he’d been traumatized. This dog sensed his need and every night he’d sleep on his bed with him and I had no trouble getting the boy to sleep. Once he was in bed the dog stayed with him all night. He was just fantastic for this kid. Which made it really hard when, with 24 hours notice, they came and picked him up.’
In the cupboard are bottles and jars with various concoctions. Fresh honeycomb harvested from the bees is divided into plastic containers, ginger beer and handmade elderflower champagne sit clothed in dust.
Children are admitted into foster care by voluntary or court order placements. Until she recounts their stories, I don’t fully comprehend the severity of what some of Rachel’s foster children have been through; recovering alcoholics, drug addicts, children who have been traumatised by abuse. She has had to deal with these sorts of issues in the children’s past, and within her own home.
‘You’d be surprised at the stuff that happens. You try and stop bad things happening but sometimes you can’t.’
Through all of this though, there is hope. Rachel takes us upstairs. She points at a wall of pictures, her finger gliding from one child to another as she recounts their stories and where they are now. Some are married, some have children of their own.
Rachel puts it simply: ‘what I get out of fostering is seeing the change.’
"I got that one photo of him over the drums. I’d never seen anything like that before, like he was levitating. I hadn’t been shooting that long and that was the photo where I went home and processed the film it was sort of that first moment where I thought ‘I can do this.’"
"I always like to challenge myself and not get too complacent with life. Moving countries was never about an end destination really. I don't like the idea of making things too easy for myself."
“I’m a bit unimpressed about op shops lately. The prices seem to by skyrocketing, and to me that defeats the purpose. Op shops are there for people who are less fortunate, people who can’t just rock up to H&M and buy some studio staples. It’s not for rich people to browse aisles and aisles of “vintage” goods, that actually just happen to be a 5 year old shirt from Sportsgirl. There’s boutiques for that!”
"I want to be an advocate for trying."
“When I was a kid I always loved going on swings. Especially at nighttime. I’d try to get as high up as I could and I’d look up at the stars and I wanted to swim in them. Looking at stars is the place I feel most at peace and most myself and I feel like I’m connected to something huge - to God - and like I’m experiencing something beyond who I am and realising how small I am.”
“Travelling alone leaves you at your most vulnerable point. At that point you decide what you want to do because you’ve got nothing else. I was travelling alone for 3 months with my camera. I came home and enrolled in photography.”
"I never have a bad hair day." Faiza El-Higzi, Islamic Feminist.
"I just don't want to have digital camera... and so my life is. I think I'm the only woman in Japan doing this. Me and many old grumpy men."