Cremorne is a fascinting suburb of Melbourne, located just 5km from the Melbourne CBD, a rich tapestrey of industrial and housing history juxtpoased with a rapid rate of deveoplent, demolitin and change. I’ve been visiting Cremorne for many years documenting with my camera. Reviewing my current photographic collection for the Cremorne project I have amassed in excess of 20,000 photographs and countless visits. Repeatedly exploring a given location forms part of my creative process. How the light changes throughout the day and seasons means the opportunities to create photography are constantly variable. Mix this with a suburb under immense change due to redevelopment, Cremorne provides a rich playground for documentary photography. All these visits and photographs got me thinking as to why I go back again and again. I remember once when I was out photographing in Launceston for my Tasmanian Art Deco and Modernism project a passerby struck up a conversation with me and jokingly said haven't you got everything already, mentioning this as I had said I had been shooting the project for over two decades.

For me I think it’s about the chase for perfection. The irony is there can never be perfect, but how the light shapes the built environment plays a pivotal role in how I make images that I’m happy with. The time of day and/or season are central in keeping me coming back again and again in the pursuit of finding the “best” conditions to represent my vision. I guess having an archive of photographs of the same scene allows me to look back and choose a particular mood I’m after, or think about how a series of photographs will work as a series side by side to tell the story of this suburb's dramatic change.

This page is dedicated to my Cremorne photographic wanderings and provides an insight into a suburb few seem to know about. To document with my camera a landscape that is being constantly altered and changed, so there is a record for posterity.

A Brief History of Cremorne

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