A City Fully Alive

Photo story and words by Albion Harrison Naish

I Have Long Admired the Mid 20Th Century

Work of Photographers Like Max Dupain and David Moore,

especially the way they used the harsh Australian sun, turning it into something romantic and reassuring, even if stark and sometimes haunting. Couple this with many years of studying history and my fascination with old photographs, and I find that Hipstamatic is a perfect tool to capture the Sydney I’ve always imagined. A city fully alive within its own time, but where earlier moments creep in, announced, unannounced or just on the sly, over to the side and behind that shaft of light.

Light to me is a transforming influence. It illuminates, it obfuscates, it shifts reality and it allows one to move between the dimensions of fiction and reality, from myth and imagination to those people on the

street, the situations playing themselves out in front of us.

I enjoy that sense of connectedness to the past of the city as I wander through it taking my photos and playing with the light. I hope you

enjoy my Sydney town of light and shadow as miracles unfold.