Category Archives: underworld

Kill City – The Players

Posted on October 8, 2011 by darren

Since I exhibited these images a few years ago I’ve had lots of people visit the Kill City page on my website and so I thought I’d try to re-create what the exhibition space was like. I say ‘try’ because the images measured almost a metre square so you don’t quite get the same effect here. I’ve also combined the images with the same music – Massive Attack’s Angel – I had running on a loop throughout the two-week show. You can read a lot more about each character on my website but essentially I photographed 12 people who’d all …

A Bit Of Radio

Posted on August 2, 2010 by darren

It’s been a while since my last post so I thought I’d share a recent Conversation Hour podcast from Jon Faine’s program on ABC Radio. I was the co-host and one of the guests was author Russell Robinson who’s written Shotgun and Standover; a great tale of Melbourne’s painter and dockers war. I photographed a few of the characters in his book for my Kill City – The Players exhibition and a lot of the people who’ve worked on the docks are names you’ve heard mentioned in the current-day underworld war. The second guest was Richard Bryant; a psychologist who’s …