Happy Anniversary, Family of Man
This year, 2015, is an apt moment to remember an important exhibition, first seen 60 years ago, and still going… Recently, I have been reading John Williams, the Sydney photographer […]
Category Archives: Autobiographical
Deakin’s crowdfunding success
Originally posted on The Research Whisperer:
After the heist, by Jonathan O’Donnell on Flickr Over the last two months, I’ve been watching Deakin University’s venture into crowdfunding research. It has…
Wild rails and nervous nystagmus
*The research for this blog post contributed to a paper The Liminal Wilderness of Railway Margins that I delivered on June 27 2013 at Cultures of the Suburbs. The ‘Cultures of the Suburbs International Research […]
…and through father’s eye
(James) Brian McArdle has come up incidentally in some recent email exchanges with a public gallery director/photography historian, interested in my father’s work because Brian was editor of Walkabout magazine through […]
Another First Photo
It’s probably rare for children these days not to have made a photograph, or a great many of them if they have access to a phone camera, before the […]
Call for artists: self-portraits and death, mortality, identity and the self.
PhD candidate Rebecca Louise at Deakin University issues this Call Out: Photographers are invited to apply to be included in an upcoming photographic exhibition, TRACES to be held in Melbourne. Inspired by […]
Perspective blown up
Jeff Wall‘s display lightboxes contain some weird perspective. The celebrated Canadian is showing at NGV at Melbourne’s Fed Square (till March 17, 2013). I regret was not well enough to attend the […]
James McArdle: Camera/Eye 