In Australia is an ongoing photographic series exploring my adolescence in the Northern Rivers in the 1990’s, a place of stark contrasts, utopian dreams, alternative culture and abject social disadvantage. The work is set in Lismore, NSW on Bundjalung land, in Australia’s infamous “Rainbow Region,” and focuses on the generation of kids following the famous Aquarius Festival.  It gently examines the residual effects of both, colonisation and this era of drugs, free love and political rebellion. The images in the series explore the existential dilemma of adolescence while showing the traces of the regions’ often unconventional family background and complex peer structures revealing how the idealism of the counter-culture movement played out when met with our small town boredom and social disadvantage.

The series takes the form of conceptual documentary; constructing realities informed by memory to reflect experiences of youth.