Presenting shows selected images from, or associated with, physical and online exhibitions, photobooks and blogs. Physical exhibitions last a month or so, then they disappear into the dusty cobwebbed corners of people’s personal memories. Over time these memories fade and the exhibition disappears into a black hole. Hence the shift to online exhibition and blogs.
Presenting is designed to show an online selection of images from these forms of presentation in order to preserve a small part of them for public viewing, present a sense of the recent history in our photographic culture and address the poor state of the public sphere. Example: the first line in the gallery is work by Adam Jan Dutkiewicz, The Path to Salt; the second line is from a photobook by Gary Sauer-Thompson, Mallee Routes: Photographing the Mallee 2019.
Adam Jan Dutkiewicz, The Path to Salt, from the RSASA satellite exhibition at The Rising Sun Inn in Kensington, Adelaide, 2020 with David Baker, Philip David, Marilyn Jacobs and Gerhard Rittter. The Path to Salt is a photographic essay of the salt fields at Dry Creek, Adelaide.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Mallee Routes: Photographing the Mallee 2019 from an exhibition of the Mallee Routes project at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery in 2019-2020. This exhibition had 3 themes: absent history, space/place, unknown futures. A review of the exhibition.
Presenting evolved into selected images from exploratory blogs which, as a mode of presentation, have become outmoded due to Facebook and Instagram. My experience is that a blog can help to develop a series of images into an embyronic project.
Roadside
These are images made whilst on the morning and afternoon poodlewalks along the back country roads in the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.
The background to, or reference for, Roadside is Joyce Evans‘ intriguing 2013 body of work entitled Edge of the Road that was shown at the Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne. This exhibition appears to have been forgotten in our photographic culture —- disappeared into its black hole.