A visual journal of public life — ritual, persona and memory in New York and elsewhere.
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Melbourne, Again
An ongoing street study of Melbourne, photographed during yearly returns to home after moving to New York City.
Phnom Penh: Within the Wats
Returning to Phnom Penh’s monasteries years after living in the city, I photographed the daily rhythms and relationships that came into focus through repeated visits.
On Forty-Seventh: Photographs from New York’s Diamond District
A photographic study of New York’s Diamond District and the uneasy overlap of skilled work, salesmanship, status and street life on West 47th Street.
Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs Trial
An exploration of the modern media circus surrounding celebrity trials, where live streamers and influencers jostled alongside legacy news.
Oral Fixation
A photographic study of people of all ages touching their mouths, tracing a small, often unconscious gesture repeated across public life.
Pairs: Repetition and Différance
Melbourne, New York City, and Tokyo
A photographic sequence exploring how repetition, relation and différance produce meaning between images.
Pride in Washington Square Park
The intersection of celebration and activism, exploring how expressions of identity transform within increasingly liberal and commercialized spaces.
Nailshop
Melbourne, New York City, Phnom Penh, Sydney, and Tokyo
Fingernails as bodily edges where grooming, self-fashioning and social judgment meet.
Hair
Melbourne, New York City, Phnom Penh, and Tokyo
Hair explored as a site where personal identity intersects with public space.
The Father
Melbourne, New York City, and Tokyo
A photographic study of how fatherhood becomes visible in public through carrying, protection, resemblance, discipline and control.
Floral Footpath
Kyoto, Melbourne, and New York City
Flowers as cultural messengers and moving gestures through the city.
J’Ouvert: Caribbean Identity and Culture in Brooklyn
Caribbean traditions take shape in Brooklyn’s streets at the annual J’Ouvert festival in Crown Heights.
September 11, New York
Photographs of the September 11 anniversary in New York, shaped by my memories of watching the attacks on television in Australia.
Phnom Penh: The Waterline
Along the Tonle Sap below Phnom Penh’s riverfront promenade, swimmers, fishers and children occupy the rough threshold between city and water.
Walking Wounded
New York City and Tokyo
Frailty, resilience, and the complex emotions triggered by witnessing trauma in public spaces.
Fleet Week: A Maritime Tradition
How military service members navigate between institutional authority and personal freedom during their temporary immersion in New York City's civilian life.
The City Behind the Wall
The City Behind the Wall examines temporary urban barriers as accidental frames, revealing hidden layers of a city undergoing constant transformation.
Act Your Age
Melbourne, New York City, and Tokyo
When age stops looking the way we expect, the photograph catches us deciding what the difference means.
Believe Me
A photographic study of certainty as public performance, where faith, fraud and persuasion compete for another person’s attention.
Writing
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Chris Killip and the Limits of Proximity
Chris Killip spent years returning to communities reshaped by industrial decline, sometimes living among the people he photographed. His photographs show what proximity can make visible, and why access never becomes possession.
Lisette Model and the Cruelty of the Frame
Lisette Model's close, abrasive photographs made bodies feel impossible to evade. Her long-shelved jazz project reveals that the familiar “cruel camera” was only one part of the work—and that an artist's reputation can itself become a crop.
The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Produces Reality
A photograph can be factually authentic and still organize the world through captions, crops, assignments and repetition. Objectivity becomes credible only when journalism accounts for the decisions that turn an encounter into evidence and evidence into social identity.