iPhoneographer

Welcome to the online version of my Exhibition 'Drowning Cities Drowning Landscapes: a climate change crescendo', part of the Shimmer Photographic Biennale  2 September - 2 October 2016 run by the City Of Onkaparinga, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. It was opened by the Hon Mark Butler MP, Shadow Minister of Climate Change and Energy on Sunday 4 September 2016 at Shingleback Winery, McLarenVale.

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As an iPhoneographer I have over the past few years experimented with faux alternative photographic processes via my iPhone. I take delight in creating art from the images I capture and manipulate via the various Apps and editing suites at my fingertips.

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My nostalgia for authentic physical things comes by way of being present in our environment and to that end I spend many hours each week walking along our unmade reserve roads and tracks and along the gorges in the Willunga Basin and various conservation and national parks. Nature - the seasons, the tides, the calls of the wild – is where some of my innate creative needs get met. More precisely, of capturing pictures of my natural surroundings.

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In the past year my concerns with environmental issues have escalated and in sympathy my art too has become more focused on the juxtapositions of the cities and landscapes I have photographed. The growing insanity around blinkered governmental denials over climate change have enraged me and over time I have channelled those thoughts and feelings into the works I submit here. I call them Drowning Cities Drowning Landscapes: a climate change crescendo.

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If alternative processes in photography leads us back to the ‘real’ then I would suggest that until we turn back time and turn back the tides of inaction, we have sadly forfeited that luxury. The Real no longer exists.

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Enjoy browsing the full collection on the Gallery Page.