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The Studio Space: 474 Hampton Street, Hampton

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John's photographs are currently exhibiting at:

The Studio Space
473 Hampton St., Hampton
Melbourne

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16 December 2011 - 28 February 2012

The Tree



Title: The Tree
Limited edition print
Date: 26 Feb 1996
Dimensions: 65”x41”
Description: The Golden Elm (Ulumus) on the corner of Punt Rd. and Alexander Ave. with its enormous canopy. My favourite tree in Melbourne. Not thinking, just watching, following its life story through its root, trunk, branches and twigs.
The most baffling riddles solve themselves.
Number of exposures: 16 exposures ½ sec over 1 hour 50 mins 
$1,750 - framed, 1 only
$1,350 - unframed

Magnolias 2



Title: Magnolias 2
Date: 30 Sept 1998
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: “The pearl absorbs the earthly light and glows with life and beauty allowing the light to dance.” Vermeer
Number of flashes: 28
Time of exposure: 35 mins
Private collection - not for sale

Fire and Light



Title: Fire and Light
Limited edition (25) print
Date: August 1996 
Dimensions; 20”x24”
Description: “Oh nature, from thee all things.
          In thee are all things, to thee, all things return.” Marcus Aurelius.
Number of flashes: 4
Time of exposure: Hand Painted with Liquid light for 20 mins
$1,450 - framed, 1 only
$1,150 - unframed

Love



Title: Love
Limited edition (25) print
Date: 20 Jan 1995
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: “I approached her with protestations of LOVE and she closed the doors.
A horseman came and stood in silence just adoration.
She went with him.”
Number of flashes: 4
Time of exposure: 5 mins
$1,250 - framed, 1 only SOLD
$850 - unframed

Tribute to Dr. Gary Grohmann



Title: Tribute to Dr. Gary Grohmann
Original
Date: 18 July 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: "What does it mean to look but see? Seeing is a whole body and mind activity in which the separation between seer and seen has completely dissolved." Havkin (Zen master)
Number of flashes: 36
Time of exposure: 10 mins
$1,850

Borders, Frontiers, New Countries



Title: Borders, Frontiers, New Countries
Limited edition (20) print
Date: 20 July 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: Never give in to despondency that attach at that lonely moment when nobody can help you, because it is between YOU and IT.
Number of flashes: 10
Time of exposure: 18 mins
$1,000 - framed, 1 only
$800 - unframed

Tribute to Music



Title: Tribute to Music
Limited edition (20) print
Date: 12 Jan 2008
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: “It is in complete silence that the Japanese view the cherry blossoms, but they can sing if the soul prompts them to.”
Number of flashes: 12
Time of exposure: 16 mins
$1,200 - framed, 1 only
$950 - unframed

A Movement and a Rest




Title: A Movement and a Rest
Original
Date: 6 July 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: “Photographs create sounds to the mind, and sounds produce images in our consciousness. The two have a brilliant dance together”. A quote by John Stanmeyer, Photographer, National Geographic.
Number of flashes: 24
Time of exposure: 28 mins
$2,450 SOLD

The Nest



Title: The Nest
Original
Date: 28 June 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: The nest shape belongs to the world of form, while the space they contain belong to the world of emptiness. At the moment giver and receiver meet, both merge into a moment of unity.
Number of flashes: 30 
Time of exposure: 35 mins
$1,850

Harmony



Title: Harmony
Limited edition (20) print
Date: 18 June 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: It is sometimes required that we move beyond the realms of belief and knowledge of ones field to be able to discover something “new and innovative.” This creative impulse comes out of abandoning oneself to the sound and then freezing oneself from it so that something unique and creative can be unlocked.
Number of flashes: 18
Time of exposure: 26 mins
$1,450 - framed, 1 only SOLD
$1,150 - unframed

The Dance



Title: The Dance
Limited edition (20) print 
Date: 7 June 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: “At these moments everything would dance and the mind would become that light.”
Number of flashes: 12 
Time of exposure: 25 mins
$1,450 - framed, 1 only
$1,150 - unframed

The Passions of Nature



Title: The Passions of Nature
Original
Date: 26 May 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: “The passions of nature are incorporated with the beautiful forms of nature.” William Wordsworth
Number of flashes: 32
Time of exposure: 45 mins
$2,650

Starry Heavens





Title: Starry Heavens
Original
Date: 17 May 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: Tribute to Edgar Mitchell (Lunar Astronaut)
“What I experienced during the three day trip home was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal consciousness. It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and this spacecraft, of the world I had come from and was returning to were all manufactured in the furnace of….ancient stars like those surrounding us.” (Edgar Mitchell, Lunar Astronaut).
Number of flashes: 18
Time of exposure: 25 mins 
$2,750 SOLD

Earthquake



Title: Tribute to Japan’s Earthquake
Limited edition (20) print
Date: 10 May 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: 10/3/2011
Number of flashes: 35
Time of exposure: 45 mins
$1,250 - framed, 1 only
$950 - unframed

Tribute to Japan



Title: Tribute to Japan’s Tsunami
Limited edition (20) print
Date: 4 May 2011
Dimensions: 20”x24”
Description: 2.46 pm Tokyo Time 11/3/2011 
Number of flashes: 24 
Time of exposure: 20 mins
$1,450 - framed, 1 only SOLD
$1,150 - unframed

Tribute to Van Gogh



Title: Tribute to Van Gogh, Starry Night
Original
Date: 27 April 2011
Dimensions: 20”x 24”
Description: “In looking at pictures one must admire what is beautiful with assurance without doubt without hesitation.” Van Gogh letter to Theo. 
Number of flashes: 38
Time of exposure: 40 mins
$2,450

Tribute to Christchurch



Title: Tribute to Christchurch, 4.9.2010
Original
Date: 14 April 2011
Dimensions: 20” x 24”
Description: As of 3.8.11 26,000 people have left the Christchurch region
Number of flashes: 32
Time of exposure: 35 mins
$2,100