This year I'll be participating in the annual Shot In The Heart of Melbourne street photography exhibition, a tour de force showcasing Melbourne street photographers. I've exhibited paintings before plenty of times in the past, including a number of solo exhibitions, but this is the first public outing for my photographic work. This exhibition in July is at the Victorian Artists' Society gallery in East Melbourne. It's actually a really nice fit for my style of photography. Documenting the street life of everyday Melbourne has been a real focus of what I've been doing over the past few years. No frills, no photoshopping or retouching and no staged shots. Just what I see as I find it. I'll be posting more details about the exhibition over the next few weeks and a few teasers about what I'll be showing.

The first image here 'Happy Hour' I took at the Immigration Museum courtyard in the Summer of 2018 at one of their excellent events. The architecture of the contemporary addition to the building provided a beautifully minimalistic environment for the solitary person as he walked past holding a beer. The main focus for me was the cool and warm tones of the architecture, the contrasting water and stone. My solitary patron provides a sense of time, place and scale. As an aside I'd recommend a visit to the Immigration Museum on Flinders Street. Back in the day it was one of the most important government buildings in what was then the colony of Victoria and the building's architecture reflects this. The music events in the courtyard to the rear of the building are pretty good too. A great way to spend an evening.