On the Cover Photo

“The cover image was taken in Tamarama, Sydney, in 1999. The Dream/Life book was made over 5 years (1994 to 1999) while walking the streets and suburbs of the city of Sydney. During the making of this book, I would pick a place I had never been to and would explore it with my camera.

Coming from a small country town, every place was new and exciting in the big city of Sydney. I would walk for hours, shoot pictures, then come home and process the negatives straight away in the bathroom of my Sydney apartment. After examining the negatives, most of the time I would end up back at the same place the following day, trying to improve on what I had shot, or hoping for something else to happen in what might have been an interesting place, or with interesting light.

On this occasion I returned to this headland several times waiting for some event to occur. These dogs happened to appear in a fleeting moment, and then they were gone in a flash. I only took a couple of frames. When I look at the picture now I don’t see the dogs as much as the face in the rocks of the landscape."