Leaving the city
Topham Mall, Adelaide CBD, 2015
These are the last photographs that I made whilst I was living in Sturt St, Adelaide. Suzanne retired from paid work and we shifted to living on the coast on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula at Encounter Bay .This was meant to be temporary as we planned to return to living Adelaide, but after a year we gave up that idea, preferring to live on the coast. That shift ended this phase of walking Adelaide. From now on walking Adelaide would be based on day visits to the city.
Park on Franklin, 2015
The city was changing as we left. There were more people on the streets. Laneways were starting to be opened up and small bars were opening. There was a sense that a post-industrial Adelaide was emerging.
My photography shifted. I started photographing in Melbourne, we started travelling to NZ, and I concentrated on the Mallee Routes project and photographing whilst on poodlewalks along the coast. There was a lull in walking and photographing Adelaide. Nothing much happened in 2016 and 2018. These years were a hiatus. I was waiting for the city to be different to the one that I knew.
North Terrace, 2105
I started to return to briefly walking and photographing the city in 2018. Then the Covid-19 pandemic happened. It created havoc despite South Australia being able to avoid major lockdowns. It was the fallout from the pandemic that changed the city.
