Monthly:September 2026

Row of three Victorian parapet shopfronts, Melbourne inner north, hidden__north documentary photography

Why I Photograph What I Photograph

I’ve been asked a few times why I keep photographing the same streets. The same facades, the same laneways, the same slow deterioration of the same century-old paint jobs. The honest answer is that they’re not the same. Or not anymore. That’s the thing about documentary photography in a neighbourhood moving as fast as Melbourne’s inner north. The subject looks stable until it isn’t. A wall you photographed a few years ago gets rendered white. A ghost sign that’s survived […]

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