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February 17, 2009
In my late afternoon urban explorations in the Adelaide's CBD yesterday I came across a couple of Polaroid enthusiasts doing double exposures in black and white using a Polaroid ProPak. I saw the picture as it was developing on the concrete ledge in the car park. It was visually sophisticated work in terms of graphic design-- part of the image was shot with the camera upside down. The couple also had a SX70.
Intrigued, I mentioned Paper Cameras and they said that they uploaded their work on Polanoid.net. Alas, no names were exchanged in the brief encounter before I moved on as a ragpicker Situationist photographer.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, chairs, Adelaide CBD, digital, 2009
In digging around Polanoid early this morning I've discovered that the screen or nickname of the photographer I encountered at the Young Street carpark is onmybike. His excellent work on Polanoid.net can be seen by using the search engine for Adelaide Australia, and then viewing the portfolio under views on It is Polaroid art.
Syd Winer, aka onmybike, Flipped 1, Polaroid
But who is onmybike? Little information is offered about the identity of onmybike apart from a link to HeadQuarters Studio; a subsequent link to the work of Sam Oster at Silvertrace; and then to the Center for Creative Photography in Adelaide.
Digging further uncovers the identity of onmybike as Syd Winer, who teaches at the Centre for Creative Photography, and has a substantial body of work.
Update
The context of post was my ongoing uncovering of local photographers, established art photographers such as Mark Kimber and local bloggers in Adelaide--eg., Mathew Lim's Light Documents--- I neglected to include the photographers at juxapostion.com or Don Brice.
In building on previous searches for a constellation of creative photographers in the local visual culture---eg., Mark Kimber, Danielle Walpole and Vitamin this digging begins to disclose a small circle of creative photographers in Adelaide.
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Syd Winer does good work.I love the Polaroids It would seem that creative things in Adelaide are happening the shadows.
There was a reference to Optic Nerve by onmybike - a quarterly get together of local photographers with a fine-art bent at HeadQuarters Studio in Richmond. Do you know if that is that still going?