Lost among the nearby Stobie poles, The Church of Christ – Croydon 2006, stands oddly out of place within its suburban environment. 

It forms a striking part of the City of Churches series, a body of work dedicated to capturing these modest places of worship. These buildings, often devoid of the usual grand religious architecture, have become the focus of a near-obsessive attention.

With a detached eye of the flânuer, the series reveals the unique character and understated beauty of South Australian churches.

The image and the series City of Churches revels in the tacit formalism afforded to black and white images; a mode that sets a trigger that embodies an enduring signature of photography.

It is with the gaze from Ned Kelly’s helmet that I began to look at his landscape. A narrow slit  —  his self imposed panavision. 

This vision is then immersed & melded with the perspective of an aboriginal dreamscape — most specifically from the Yarralin Tribe —  from far north-western Australia. 

It is the duality of  Australian myth & the Yarralin Aborigines, the  inclusion of the figure of Ned Kelly within  both cultures which has resulted in these images.

A poignant homage to the unexpected nature of death. These striking images vividly capture the paths of countless individuals, each memorialized in poignant totems of remembrance carefully placed at roadside crash scenes.

Taken at the time of my mother's passing, these photographs serve as a testament to loss. In some way, they represent my personal "thoughts and prayers," reflecting the deep emotions and memories that such moments evoke.