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February 21, 2006
The weekend Australian Financial Review had an article on the landscape photographyof Julian Roberts--images of the tea-tree bracken at Port Lonsdale, a beachside town of Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula
A selection (16) of these Hasselblad images of coastal landscapes around the entrance (The Rip) to Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne have been exhibited in a photographic show called Plottings, which opened this week at 45downstairs in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
It is good to see intimate black and white studies of a habitat that we exist within as we walk along the coastline pathways:
Ian Roberts, Plottings, no.9, 2005
It is a coastline that we usually take for granted as scrub:
Ian Roberts, Plottings no 10, 2005
Ugly ti-tree scrub, some say.
What we have at Port Lonsdale is an often gentle coastline that is close to the wild and untamed nature of The Rip, which opens a safe Port Philip Bay into the rugged and stormy Bass Strait, and then to Tasmania.
Ian Roberts, Plottings, no 14, 2005
Few stop and look at this coastline. Ian Roberts has. He dwells in the landscape of this place.
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