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Newtown Grafitti

My father-in-law, Mike, died earlier this year but before his death plans were in progress to take some of his 29,913 photographs of Sydney and exhibit them. A documentary is being made about Mike by the very creative Rachel Jordan and she also wants to make these exhibition plans a reality. You can read more about it on Pozible.

There’s a great video of Mike there and in it he says,

If in a neighbourhood you can walk to the places you want to go, it’s a good neighbourhood to live in.

I couldn’t agree more.

http://vimeo.com/90656270

His photographs are on his Flickr page, Newtown Grafitti. Here are some of my favourites.

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/newtown_grafitti/9056594563/
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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/newtown_grafitti/10018054324/
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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/newtown_grafitti/9164138513/
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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/newtown_grafitti/8923810438/
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15 responses to “Newtown Grafitti”

  1. ladysighs Avatar
    ladysighs

    How very neat! I like random photos of here and there. Everything must have been interesting to him.
    The video makes me want to go out and snap. 🙂

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      Yes, I felt a bit that way when I watched the video too. I wish I’d got some photography tips from him before he died.

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  2. luciledegodoy Avatar
    luciledegodoy

    He’s an amazing photographer. I had seen the graffiti before and loved it. Thanks for sharing more links.
    The video is also very good; he’s so right that moments are temporary, and went photographing at least once a day. The same advise serves us for life in general, isn’t it?

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      Yes, he’s captured all these temporary moments. They’re things that most of us are often too busy to notice. He’s written funny captions on quite a few of them on Flickr too.

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  3. indianmacgyver Avatar
    indianmacgyver

    checking out the captions on flicker, lead me to the occupy sidney three part, learned something with part 1 and laughed out loud with part 3. couldn’t agree more about walking from home to places you want to go. i miss that now. take care.

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      Yes, where we live now we can walk everywhere and I love it. In Auckland we were forced to use a car and this is one of the reasons I disliked the city so much.

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  4. Bronwyn Avatar
    Bronwyn

    The funding for Mike’s exhibition has been raised so it will be a reality. Funding closed today. A fascinating man. How sad that he died before he could enjoy a public celebration of his work.

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      Yes, I saw that. Ben would have topped it up to reach the goal if it hadn’t made it before the cut-off.

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  5. Bronwyn Avatar
    Bronwyn

    Just enjoyed the video. Some wonderful photos. Pretty good to attract 1.5 million followers.

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  6. Andrea Avatar
    Andrea

    Wow. Mike’s pics are great. As I only read this now I missed the cutoff for pozzible but would love to see his work in Sydney if I can. Is there any way I can stay in the loop?

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      I can send you an email with dates and information about it.

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  7. argentumvulgaris Avatar
    argentumvulgaris

    What awesome photos…

    AV

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      I agree!

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  8. Denise Avatar
    Denise

    I like the sense of humour in the photos, and also the sense of striking images, like the leaves on the wall.

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      The vine on the wall is my absolute favourite. We’re going to print that one and put it on our wall.

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