My photographs of the Berlin Wall, taken in 1989, are amongst the most regularly viewed in my Flickr photostream. Understandable in the lead up to the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall on 9 November this year.
Some of them are mine and a few are a fellow traveller’s, collected by me at the [...]
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From memory: Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin
Images, history and invention
Images, history and invention – that’s the title of an event coming up on Monday 14 July at the National Library of Australia in Canberra, and I have been invited to speak at it in my capacity as a Flickr photographer, archivist and contributor to Picture Australia.
“Join image makers and picture curators in conversation on [...]
Personal digital recordkeeping: note to self
Archivist, researcher and natural born recordkeeper that I am, it is perhaps surprising that I am a bit slack when it comes to personal digital recordkeeping.
I say a bit, because in some areas I’m quite good. I have a twelve year email archive that is still accessible and in regular use, and I migrated my [...]
Metadata, there is a porpoise
Jack Evans Porpoise Pool 1972
Originally uploaded by brettm8.
My use of the photo sharing website Flickr has changed a little over the more than two years I have been using it, and will no doubt change again. Currently the Incomparable Iris is the main subject of my photography efforts (maternity leave does that to you)
What hasn’t [...]