Venice produces many surprises.

We drove 2 hours to Ballarat in country Victoria for the Ballarat Foto Biennale. While there were some decent photography exhibitions, it was the buildings in which the photos were being exhibited themselves which were impressive.
 

Mining exchange

Railway crossing

Gallery Toot Toot (actual name!) at the railway station

 Lunch at Daylesford- poor fella wants to have a bite with [...]

I asked one of the guys at work today at the gallery whom he would say is the most influential contemporary photographer. After umming and aahing for a little while he listed a number of photographers and then finally settled on the American Garry Winogrand (b.1924-d.1984). Looking through a beautiful coffee-table book on Winogrand’s work, it is easy to [...]

The Ballarat Foto Biennale boldly claims to be the biggest photography event in the Southern Hemisphere. Even though this title probably rightfully belongs to FotoFreo, a trip to the Biennale in regional Victoria is definitely on the cards in the next few weeks (the program runs from the 4th of September to the 4th of [...]

Photos by Veronique de Viguerie

The New York Times ran an eye-opening article today by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn of  the crusade to educate, liberate, microfinance and  Save the World’s Women. Read it. It’s a much needed reminder about how far we have to go in the fight for equality. I then came across [...]

Stephen Dupont (b.1967) is one of Australia’s foremost photojournalists and has traversed the world covering wars  for various international publications, winning a Robert Capa Gold Medal Citation from the Overseas Press Club of America and nearly dying for his troubles. He has a particular interest in, and love for, Afghanistan and has spent more than [...]

Ok, ok so I’m really ridiculously behind on my photo-a-day series but I’m going to try and catch up. Promise!
Liu Xiao Xian, a multitalented Chinese-Australian artist, has an amazing exhibition on at the moment at RMIT gallery called ‘From East to West’. As you can probably guess, a lot of his works in the exhibiton [...]

My lovely friend practicing

Dance, dance, dance. Click, click, click.
I rather shyly took my camera to dance class- it’s a rather private world even though there are Classical Indian Dance schools in nearly every nook and cranny of our big world. I think it’s important to document this phenomenon. At a time when ancient cultures and [...]

The Paris Edition of the Moleskine City Diaries is just perfect. Metro map, street directory, notebook and a section to make your own itinerary all in one. Luuurve it. 

Grading days for any martial arts are generally tense and exhausting experiences. Complicated sequences to remember, nuanced step work to perfect and intense concentration tested all whilst you are fighting nerves and are  watched by 5 experienced black belts. On the plus side, you get a shiny new belt to take home with you if [...]