Snaps from Sydney on E Bay

10th March 2011


My somewhat surly and wholly unkempt alter ego Andrew Stark informed me during a recent late night bout of schiziod verbosity that he has hoisted a rare copy of his 2003 book, Snaps from Sydney up on e bay to be auctioned to absolutely anyone that cares. Now despite this clearly being the photographers best work I greeted this somewhat self indulgent filament of news with a shrug of sinewy scapulas before pulling one of those  'whatever' grimaces made internationally famous by the 1943 game show ace Colonel Klink.  Said book is apparently signed (I presume by the author) and the following Photofile Magazine review may enlighten the unsuspecting potential buyer (and just to the left there's an equally informative blurb on one of Bill Henson's publications).

  The electronic marketplace awaits good readers, and do be sure to bring along your well swung little hessian sack, brimming to the pull-string with clinking currency -  Maltese Lira, Kuwaiti Dinars, Cyprian Piastres, French Polynesian Centimes ... hell, they'll even take luke warm Aussie currency on e bay (absolutely no standards).

So for anyone with a cacophonous clinking of loose change in the side pouches of their lower covering - here's the link to visual gratification

Recent Offerings #4

 17th February, 2011.

As the giant, Romanesque dial  high up on the Woy Woy clock tower strikes its traditionally slurred and cacophonous eleven minutes past wine o clock, I plunge my free hand deep into the kit bag of hopeful endeavour. Gnarled digits scavenge hungrily in amongst the naïve batch of ‘recent offerings’: sweat forming a picket line of nervous shimmer just above my reddish pouty bits as the futility of everything begins its stark mantra that echoes oh so familiar…  “surely there was something just a little bit interesting housed in amongst these neg sleeves of not all that long ago !” …   

Photograph - Andrew Stark

Photograph - Andrew Stark

Photograph - Andrew Stark

Photograph - Andrew Stark

Photograph - Andrew Stark



Photograph - Andrew Stark

Photograph - Andrew Stark

Photograph - Andrew Stark

Recent Offerings #3

 3rd January 2011

I guess I should really set the record straight on these “recent offerings” claims.

The Nowhere Man wanders aimlessly atop the crumbling bitumen streets. He takes just the occasional, often curious photograph – and for what reason he forces down when he does, that little silver button, is a mystery resigned totally to the fulsome inbox of www.Theo.com – the Greek e-God of all stuff unexplainable
(...and also a great place to buy affordable on-line fruit & veg).

The process is a slow and cumbersome morass of repetitive catchupism (word invented – patent pending).
Please let me expand…
Once home from my day’s sidewalk shuffle I toss any resultant exposed film into the specially tailored lead lined draw I picked up for a song back in the mid nineties at one of Pete Garrett’s garage sale’s over on Wedding Cake Island (I’d really hate to lose work to nuclear fallout or something…). Anyway, inside the sheltered draw are a queue of grey canisters awaiting succor like a short n cylindrical gaggle of expectant pensioners, hunched, mouths agape, awaiting the lime flavoured wobble of jelly and ice cream at the Gwen Plumb Memorial Nursing Home’s traditional Sunday lunchtime buffet.  Eager little soldiers of tightly coiled TRI-X for whom one by one, an introduction to twenty degree dev’ awaits.

… many many months later I scan the neg’s – a back log approaching 12 months flashes gaily upon the Nowhere Man scoreboard at my most recent glance.

So when I open boldly with the heading “recent offerings” – please factor in the lag.

These pictures are new – however the subjects of the photo’s have well and truly moved on …(no, I don’t mean they’re dead – I just mean they’re not standing where they were when the photo that features them was actually taken – which of course is bleeding obvious but is used here as a gross exaggeration for some sort of effect – something I’m told I do quite often).

 

So here’s a further 8 “recent offerings”, from which I’m trying to work out whether any are OK …  and that’ll take another 6- 12 months to determine !    

Photo- Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark



Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

                                                           

Recent Offerings #1 … a fresh photo or 7 from ‘Down Under’

4th December, 2010.

Just as it is with the Ugandan King Baboon Tarantula who survives on a low carb diet of one hefty insect a month, The Nowhere Man snaps his nutritional fare quite sparsely. Worthwhile ocular interpretation has always been a personal challenge (as has seeing stuff), even more so as the years have tumbled by and that unremitting clutter of life has fuzzed significant intent.

Sadly, despite the addition and attention of copious rolls of black electrical tape I must also report that Konica has begun haemorrhaging internally and every sixth or seventh frame is now being lined by unwanted stalactites of light…

That being said – the streets continue to be free to enter and both the Aussie weather and my state of mind remain clemently balmy with only the barest hint of a pre dusk low pressure change.

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark

Photo - Andrew Stark



Photo - Andrew Stark