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  • Home
  • Autobiographies
    • Fulham Palace Road
    • It’s gettin’ hot
  • Photo-Work I
    • Dux
    • Cup City
    • Pictures From The End Of The World
    • Great Eastern Highway
    • Town Pictures
    • Let’s Dance
    • Our Place: Commercial Road – Matilda Bay
    • Bush Work
  • Photo-Work II
    • Beach Pictures I
    • Beach Pictures II
    • Beach Pictures III
    • Beach Pictures IV
    • Beach Pictures V
    • One Perfect Summer’s Day
  • Photo – Work III
    • Paris
    • The Man Who Never Stopped Walking
    • The Woman Who Never Smiled
    • The End of Everything
    • Street Work
    • 8 Days
    • Post Melbourne
  • Art Work
    • Blax Beaux-Art
    • Blaxzilla Graphic Art
  • Text Work
    • Journals
      • 1-Fulham Palace Road
      • 2-The Woman Who Never Smiled
      • 3-Diana Pictures
      • 4-Caravaggio’s Rome
      • 5-Duccio and An Angel Dressed in Red
      • 6-Simone’s Apartment
      • 7-The Greyhound
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After renting a flat in Claremont by the river in 1976, we rented a house in Shenton Park in 1978 and then moved into our place in the same street in 1979. It would be where Remi and Alix grew up. It was a house where summers were long and hot and winters cold. The kitchen was small, with two of us eating facing a wall. The bathroom was on the back verandah and the toilet was out back in the garden. The kitchen and bathroom were clad in sheets of asbestos. That was our place, a wooden worker’s cottage built in the 1920s. We enjoyed the garden and being close to the river and Matilda Bay and not being too far from the beach. In 2005 we demolished our place and built a house that had no asbestos and had windows that let the winter sun shine in and could catch the cooling sea breezes in summer and where you could sit around the kitchen table and no one faced a wall. I photographed our house
demolished. That was the last time I shot a roll of black and white film.

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