As I look out on the unutterable beauty of the snowcapped mountains of the Ngarigo country that I live in, I can only marvel at the conversation I just had with my friend who is enjoying the humidity of 35 degree heat in Larrakia country. Most Australians, much less the rest of the “white” world … Continue reading The Limit Of Our Sight…
I remember the last time I saw my Dad fully conscious before he died. I was a brand new photographer. I had only bought a camera about eighteen months before I had my last conversation with him. And as I made my final visit to him before the life zapping operation he endured, I dragged … Continue reading Photojournalism…now and then…
Living in Australia can feel intensely remote… even in the very centre of Sydney, the largest city in this vast land mass called the Australian continent. Often you can find yourself completely alone walking down a inner city street after midnight… It can sometimes feel like you are the only person alive on this planet … Continue reading After Hours
Like a sewerage outfall into the ocean, last week’s so-called Australian national celebration of its apparent “founding” on the 26th January, has washed up the usual turds onto the shores of this ancient continent. Continue reading Boganus Australis
… And We Want It Now! So go the lyrics of one of the seminal songs of the 1960’s “When The Music’s Over” by Jim Morrison and The Doors. Jim Morrison was a great poet and iconic ‘rock-star’ who challenged the actions of the generations that had proceeded him with his songs, in what were considered to be … Continue reading We Want The World….
Wow.. now thats a header that going to be a hard one to live up too! But then anything that inspires change is never going to be easy really is it? If it was then I am sure that we would all be riding on an endless merry-go-round of possibilities to improve our environments, our … Continue reading Inspiring Change…
I am not a romantic… Well at least thats what I have told everyone all my life… in fear, I guess, of the greater probability of all romantic notions failing abysmally when it comes to reality… Take for instance the romance of the idea that we could all be equal in our dealings with one … Continue reading Two Minds One Heart….
News just to hand… Hipstamatic that coolest of cool iPhone applications has had to lay off five of its eleven employees according to the British Journal Of Photography. The BJP reports that Hipstamatic “is facing financial hardship, as the app has disappeared from the top charts on Apple’s App Store especially since Instagram’s rise in … Continue reading Unhip Hipstamatic? Or Fauxtography Fail?
After suffering an interminable period of disconnectedness from the world due to an appalling internet and communications service I am now determined to overcome the terrestrial limitations that living two hours from the official seat of Federal Government in Australia creates and bring to you the news of the latest trend in holiday travel…. Yes … Continue reading ‘Voluntourism’ The Newest Holiday Destination?
…I wonder what he, she, it or they would think of the way we treat one another on this small blue spinning sphere we call earth…. I do often feel like an alien to this planet when I witness what people are capable of doing to one another in anger, spite or frustration…Human beings can … Continue reading What If God Was One Of Us…
Lisa Hogben Photojournalist 