That was a line out of a poem I wrote as a seven year old child. I received all sorts of accolades for the poem from my then 2nd grade teacher, only to run directly into the ire of Sister Cletus sometime later in the day for mentioning (Winnie) The Pooh as a great piece … Continue reading Brumbies Running Wild and Free…
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…
…has been driven into the heart of the country called Australia. The name of this country is of course not the same name for country that the Original People…whose DNA is entwined with the very molecules of earth of which it is made… would call it. But it is the same place geographically. Not spiritually, not culturally, not … Continue reading The Invisible Spear…
… 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….
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….
…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…
Now sing along to the tune of the Flintstones cartoon… Fergussons. Meet the Fergussons. They’re the modern type of family. From the town of Sydney, They’re a page right out of history. When you’re with the Fergussons You’ll have a yabba dabba doo time. A dabba doo time. You’ll have a gay old time! This … Continue reading Meet The Fergussons…
Ok so I have stolen my header from the title of a book written by Ann B. Ross but it seemed appropriate given that this week I finally had my first opportunity to photograph the incumbent Prime Minister of Australia… Julia Gillard. Much has been written, discussed and debated about the present PM which is natural … Continue reading Miss Julia Delivers The Goods…
Its definitely unlikely to happen…ever… he has about a snowflakes chance in hell of ever being nominated… Which is funny when you think about it, considering TIME Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ front cover, which is a hotly contested and deliberated choice THAT does still have enough clout to make people pay attention, was nearly … Continue reading Julian Assange for Australian of the Year…
By now the world has surely heard of the terrible floods that have afflicted the Australian state of Queensland and Brazil in South America. It is remarkable of course that these events that have occurred almost simultaneously but almost an entire world apart have elicited such resoundingly different responses. Australia has, by and large, won the … Continue reading After the Flood
Lisa Hogben Photojournalist 