Mike has gone from a ‘snipper’ (film and video editor) to a ‘snapper’. Throughout the 40 years of running a successful video Post Production business, he always had a camera with him as it was his relief valve, also importantly creative too, a quiet moment during 24/7 service industry. Always wandering the back roads, he seeks the other side of life, an odd moment, a funny lighter side of life... quirky juxtaposes from life’s rich stories. I like what Raghu Rai said...”I wait...(pointing skyward) and he performs”

mikereedphotography.com

Painting, drawing and music performance were my youthful passions. However, these pursuits were largely put aside for a career in engineering.

I have always been drawn to the world of visual communication. As a young engineer I spent many years at the drawing board. Sketching and drawing the 3D built world is part of my DNA and working as an engineer in a creative architectural and interior design office for 25 years gave me a love of architectural visual arts.  

Having taken photographs for more than 40 years, mainly as records of travel and family, I realised that photography could fill an artistic gap in my life following my retirement, allowing me to again become involved in visual expression and communication. I am now enthusiastically pursuing various genres in photography.

The idea of an image offering a visual suggestion, an illusion, rather than the image providing a fully detailed description or story of the particular subject, is for me, very evocative.

Human creations of all kind, particularly neglected human creations, present me with challenging opportunities for image making. I seek to encourage a visual curiosity and a contemplation of ordinary and everyday subjects that may normally be completely overlooked.

My images are untitled. Most have been made over the last 5 years.

Website: www.rogerarnallphotography.com

Tony was interested in photography as a teenager and printed black-and-white analogue photos in his bathroom.  Now, after studying and working for 54 years, he has retired and returned to photography. He enjoys taking digital photographs while walking around Fitzroy and is taking part in his first exhibition.

In his day job, Russ is a freelance nonfiction editor concentrating mainly on domestic and international politics, history, and biography. Since 2003, to hold despair about the state of things at bay, he has worked with some of Australia’s finest shit-stirrers and satirical artists to curate and publish the best-selling annual survey of political culture, Best Australian Political Cartoons. Russ can’t draw to save his life and was profoundly embarrassed to receive the Australian Cartoonists Association’s Jim Russell Award for his contribution to Australian cartooning.

Russ has recently rediscovered a love for photography extinguished years ago by studio production-line family portraits. These days he has a predilection for uncovering the secret landscapes concealed in mundane, badly rendered cement walls, as well as in more conventional seascapes, particularly the zones of convergence of sea and sky, of space and light.

The work showcased on this website was created during the last three years of lockdowns and is called “Lockdown Lovelies”

Judi Mowlem is an award winning Australian photographic artist.

Her photographic style ranges from dramatic seascapes to urban landscapes, as well as aerial abstracts. Her photos draw upon the geometric lines of architecture and their counterparts in nature. According to Judi “my photographs are almost always spontaneous; my subjects find me. I am drawn to urban environments that are busy and offer the opportunities to study people of different cultures in the daily surroundings”

She has been inspired by painters, especially the impressionists, and the work of other photographers including Michael Wolfe, Andre Gursky, Valda Bailey and Lauren Mersolier.

Above all, Judi’s aim is to create images that reflect what she sees and feels in the moment of taking the photograph. The resulting work can be viewed as modern art pieces.

judimowlemphotography.com

Graeme is an architect who cut his teeth (and some film) with photography in the darkroom at the University of Melbourne Architecture School in the seventies. He is currently rediscovering this hobby which he had sidelined for many years whilst focusing on his professional career. He is particularly interested in applying some of the design elements of architecture gleaned from building projects, to photography.

Most people who have known Sally would think of her as an Art Director or Creative Director, her day and night job for the last 25 years. But if you dug a little deeper she might have told you about her passion for photography, travelling and her curiosity for people and their stories. Sally first picked up a camera when she was sixteen and pretty much straight away felt a connection to the place it took her. But this is where it stopped for a long time. More recently she has fallen in love all over again. Today she is rekindling the passion and beginning a new adventure. The still image can tell you so much and yet it often goes unnoticed. When frozen the precious moment lives forever. This is what I strive to find and hold onto.

@sallycoggle
sallycogglephotography.com

My first photographic endeavour was an attempt to capture kangaroos in the bushland behind our house with a Box Brownie. Unsuccessful to say the least, but the love of capturing images was born. My photographic equipment slowly improved over the years, as did my results (thankfully). Being a natural sticky-beak I soon realised that if I was carrying a camera my inquisitiveness was awarded some legitimacy. This afforded access to places where my presence might otherwise be regarded with suspicion.
My love of wandering the streets both at home and in other lands has provided me with copious opportunities for making images of life and the landscapes in which they are lived. I love the quirky small details found in the prosaic.I also relish the solitude and quiet contemplation of traditional landscape photography. I have found it a very difficult task to select just a few representative images from my collection to present on this site as I think I must be an indiscriminate image junkie. In one way or another I have explored just about every photographic genre and cliche there is. While there is breath being drawn I will find photographs to take.

Richard Gerraty is an amateur photographer in Melbourne. He came to digital late and still shoots film. His ten film cameras are not a collection: he uses them. But the convenience of digital camera with a moderate aperture and compact 28mm lens is also an ideal choice.

Russell is a working photographer with a passion for black and white film and darkroom printing. He is also a lover of street photography, which is quite a different discipline to his job as a product and events photographer. In his spare time you will find him on the streets, or locked up in his darkroom.