1 May, 2024
Sigh, Gone – Shooting in Ho Chi Minh City
These photographs were made on a recent trip to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam’s economic metropolis and home to more than 8 million people. I first visited the city in 2003...
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21 April, 2024
Kodak Portra 400 – Recreating 90s New York Style
As a teenager growing up in suburban New Zealand during the early 90’s, New York seemed like an urban outpost on a distant planet. I recall a school friend giving me a copy of t...
17 November, 2021
The Challenges (and Joys) of Travelling with Film – Reflections on Vanuatu – By Ali MC
People often ask me at presentations and tutorials: ‘what are some the challenges of travelling with film?’ To be honest, after emerging from 262 cumulative days in the world’s ...
3 May, 2021
Shooting Medium Format Film in Rohingya Refugee Camps (and Getting Arrested in the Process) – By Ali MC
In 2016 I travelled to Rohingya refugee camps in Burma and Bangladesh to shoot portraits of the people living there with a Fujifilm GA645. I was interested in the plight of the ...
18 March, 2021
Photographing a Refugee Protest – By Ali MC
Like many photographers, I’ve always aspired to become a photojournalist. However, the global media industry is rapidly changing and the ‘golden era’ of photojournalism - featur...
28 January, 2021
Portrait Photography on a Rolleiflex: Archie Roach and the Stolen Generations – By Ali MC
I am fortunate to currently have this portrait of the Indigenous Australian singer Archie Roach on display at the Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne, Australia. It was shot on a...
3 September, 2020
Analog Iran – A Project Shooting B&W Film Documenting Iran – By Ali MC
In August and September 2019 I spent four weeks traveling around Iran, a fascinating and truly diverse country. Iran at that time was under immense political and social pressure...