It’s often said of newtown residents, their horizons coincide with the suburb’s borders. Taking the new little planet software for a run.

Re-orienting the stairs panorama upwards, reveals even more interesting geometry.

Anonymous was an art school photography project, ostensibly for a lightroom printing subject. I decided to use it to try a gonzo-journalist approach to documenting the anti-Scientology protests being conducted by the Anonymous movement in Sydney from the mid to late 2000s.

I arrived masked, everyone at the protest was masked. I informed the people I photographed of the nature of the photography in which I was engaged. I shot the images with my brand new iPhone 3GS. They were then processed  with colour and emphasis intents, and a strong pixelation compression was applied to the subjects.

These images are presented at 50% scale, in png format. The nature of the pixelation I’ve applied means it’s very hard to recompress them, without losing the very detail I worked to create, so 50% reduction in size is the only way to achieve acceptable web file sizes.

Cloudlands house is a place you can rent in the blue mountains west of Sydney. It may look like a simple weatherboard cottage, but once you’re inside it’s all dark wood panelling, fireplaces and big clawfoot baths.

When it comes to panoramas, this is my masterwork so far.

The other end of the Enmore tunnel, it’s a pair of staircases, perpendicular to the tunnel itself, and is the very reason I got into panoramic imagery – to hunt down these filthy run down inner city locations, and find the beauty of their geometry. I’m going to get back into it in a big way in the near future hopefully.

This tunnel is one of the great and interesting locations of Enmore. Said to be haunted (suuuure) it’s almost certainly had its share of muggings and unpleasantness over the years. It’s such an obvious ambush location you can’t help but feel trepidation as you walk through it.

At one stage it was filled with graffiti, really good graffiti that must have been decades old, well before the artless tagging style that arose in the 90s. Much of it actually brushwork. The council in their wisdom decided to destroy that particular bit of local history and repaint it all with a fresh coat of yellow. In the 7 or so years since it’s filled with grafiti again, but it’s all spraycan tagging crap.

The main intersection of Newtown. To the left is King street and the Townie, to the right is Enmore Rd.

This was shot well after midnight on a weeknight, hence the lack of people.

This is the design college I was studying and working at for a while. It’s right down the bottom of the street I was living on at the time. Which was convenient to say the least.