Sydney and the Red Dust.

Rachel Hulin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:44:13 +0000

The interwebs are a-flutter today with talk of Sydney’s unprecedented and bizarre red dust storm. Flickr’s blog alerted me to many special pictures of the storm, and I’ve been trapped in a red, dusty haze for hours. Here are some standouts; take a look and see what you can find– it’s a photographer’s paradise. (If you like red and dust. which I do.)

All images link to their flickr respective page with a click.

whoa.

Diana from Down Under! With Stacy Mehrfar.

Rachel Hulin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:21:51 +0000

My buddy Stacy Mehrfar moved to Australia last year and has been quite active from the land down under, working hard to promote her excellent project American Palimpsests and continuing to make new work. I woke up today to a note from Stacy and a few dozen Diana camera shots in my inbox. What fun! Disco balls, giraffes, mattresses and tennis- these Aussies are having a hell of a time. Have a look.

The email:

“I read your post about the Lomo ads and I thought its time I share some new images with you.

When I moved to Sydney I bought myself a Diana F+. I was having a hard time photographing here and thought that the Diana would free me from the need to produce images with a concept. And generally bring me back to just enjoying the act of taking pictures.

And so I started shooting my encounters down under in a very carefree manner, with a camera that produced unpredictable images. I soon realized that my brain cannot make pictures without thinking about their meanings and I started to really be conscious of the types of images I created with Diana. Since last December I have been shooting a new project, tentatively titled, Diana Goes to Australia. The images are visually different than my previous works, but I think that there are parallels nonetheless. “

Read an interview with Ms Mehrfar, here.

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Sydney and the Red Dust.

Diana from Down Under! With Stacy Mehrfar.