Just a few of my images

New Surroundings – A recent move has opened up new photographic experiences Every few months I write a piece for publication on the APS Focus page of Australian Photography magazine. My latest piece, New Surroundings, has been published in the current (August-September 2026) issue. Here it is (below a scan of the published piece): My wife and I recently moved to a brand-new retirement village…

Book Review Time Carved In Stone: Benjamin Kopilow All photographs, text and design by Benjamin Kopilow Published by Benjamin Kopilow, ©2026. All rights reserved. 1st Edition. Published in Canberra, Australia ISBN: 978-1-291-82268-7 The cover of the book – image © Benjamin Kopilow Benjamin Kopilow is a photographer, teacher and mentor. I have personally experienced Ben in all those roles…

Visual Art Exhibition Review Murrudha: Sovereign Walks | Dr Matilda House, Brenda L. Croft, William James Mildenhall, Prue Hazelgrove, Dean Freeman, Cheryl Davison, Shane Herrington ANU School of Art & Design Gallery | 7 July – 7 August 2026 In her capacity as team leader for the Australian National University (ANU) Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge, Professor Brenda L. Croft…

Visual Art Exhibition Review Arthur Boyd: Tapestries | Curated by Adam Lindsay and Elspeth Pitt National Gallery of Australia, Level 1, Gallery 12 | 20 June – 18 October 2026 In this major exhibition, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) is presenting the complete series of twenty monumental tapestries by renowned Australian artist Arthur Boyd. He is one of Australia’s most celebrated…

Visual Art Exhibition Review VIEW2026 | Cass Li, Dylan Marriott, Elesa Stellios, Toni Tait, XinShuo Zhuo Curated by Gabrielle Hall-Lomax Photo Access I 4 June – 11 July 2026 VIEW is an annual exhibition at Photo Access which offers a glimpse into the future of Australian photographic practice. It does that by sharing artworks by emerging artists. VIEW2026 unites a range of analogue, digital…

Visual Arts Exhibition review BEYOND: An art tonic, making sense of this discombobulating time by Kati Gorgenyi, Toni Hassan, John Pratt, and Ujala Aftab Chapel Gallery, Charles Sturt University | 7 – 23 May 2026 We read, hear and view true, distorted, opionated and fake news stories every day. We struggle to make sense of so much that reaches us via newspapers, radios, TV broadcasts, the…

Visual Arts Exhibition Review Between What Remains | Hilary Wardhaugh and David Manley Belconnen Arts Centre |  27 March – 17 May 2026 The 2024 Canberra City News Artist of the Year, Hilary Wardhaugh, has again produced a wonderful collection of artworks – this time for a joint exhibition with a friend from their teenage years in Belconnen. Their surroundings influenced the visual elements…

Visual art exhibition review Deadpan artefacts: creative experiments with facial expression recognition in photographic portraiture | Melita Dahl ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, Wed 22 Apr 2026, 10:30 am – Fri 15 May 2026, 3:00 pm An early graduate of the ANU School of Art & Design, Melita Dahl later undertook postgraduate study at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. Her work is…

The last time I published an exhibition review was on 3 January this year. Since then I’ve only published two other pieces on this blog, on 6 & 7 February. Why have I been so quiet? Well, it’s been a combination of health issues, selling our home then packing up and moving into a new apartment in a retirement village, then unpacking and settling in. We are still not completed organised in our new…

Every few months I write a piece for publication on the APS Focus page of Australian Photography magazine. My latest piece Finding Images has been published in the current (February-March 2026) issue. Here it is (below a scan of the published piece): Sometimes we find ourselves with a few minutes on our hands. For me, that often happens when I drive a family member to an appointment which will…

This is a personal story illustrated with my photography. It is much longer than my usual pieces on this blog. After a Great Shock 11.6.24 I begin again with the ground beneath my feet And look up at the trees, their leaves Dying brilliantly in their natural course. Endangered as they are, they will outlive Our blind rapacity and remind us how A generation fails and dies. Half of us Exult…

Visual art exhibition review Women Photographers 1853-2018 | Various Artists National Gallery of Australia | 11 October 2025 – 1 March 2026 Women photographers 1853–2018 is presented as highlighting “the transformative impact of women artists on the history of photography.” It is another Know My Name project, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) initiative celebrating the work of all women…

Photography/Biography Book Review Black, White + Colour – A Biography of Mervyn Bishop Text © Tim Dobbyn 2025 Publisher: Ginninderra Press ISBN Standard edition: 9781761097089 ISBN International edition: 979-8-9921572-0-8 207 pp Book Cover featuring School Bus Yarrabah, 1974, Mervyn Bishop This illustrated biography of Mervyn Bishop – Australia’s first indigenous professional photographer…

LOVING – Photographs of men in Love, 1850s to 1950s A loving City – Queerberra Revisited Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG), Gallery 2 | 6 December 2025 to 5 April 2026 Whilst most certainly being complementary, these two exhibitions in adjoining spaces are also very different to each other. LOVING – Photographs of men in Love, 1850s to 1950s is, obviously, only about men. The large number of…

Visual Arts Exhibition Review ‘illuminate ’25 – Friends of the Gardens Photographic Group Australian National Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre Gallery 21 November – 14 December 2025 Exhibitions in the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) Visitor Centre Gallery explore the Australian environment through diverse creative forms. This annual exhibition is of photographic artworks, using…

Visual Arts Review unBECOMING – Fernanda Pedroso Grainger Gallery on Geelong 15 November – 14 December 2025 (Thu–Sun, 11am–5pm) Originally from Brazil, Fernanda Pedroso moved to Australia in 2020 and is based in Canberra.  At the age of 40 she transitioned from a 20-year career in advertising to a new life in photography. In the few years since she has achieved a great deal, including being…