Acorn Photo

27/04/2025

I've been doing photographic documentation for artists for an awfully long time. And I've been presenting my DIY seminar for artists for over 20 years.
The City of Belmont have been a recent sponsor - I'll be back there on Thursday, 22nd May at 10.30AM as part of the professional development workshop series they run as part of their art awards. Come along and ask the tough questions!

Enhance your creative skills at the 2025 Art Awards professional development workshop series Join us for a series of professional development workshops designed to provide hands-on opportunities for emerging artists to expand their professional skills and prepare competitive applications for the 202...

08/07/2024

Hello Friends,
I have few photos up as part of the Imagemakers west coast gang show. Love to have you join us for the opening!

https://events.humanitix.com/copy-of-copy-of-1-shot-24-seeing-and-knowing-perth

21/03/2024

Come along and do me out of a job!

Art Awards Workshop Series: Join professional collection photographer Robert Frith for this workshop exploring how to document your artwork

20/02/2022

Portrait of for Secrets of Subiaco, currently on show at Subi Library and online.
https://seesubiaco.com.au/Businesses-Venues/See-Subi-Arts/Secrets-of-6008-WILL-SCHOFIELD

A sense of place. A story to tell. A city to discover. Discover a portrait exhibition and interview series that celebrates the people, places, and untold stories of Subiaco. The exhibition will held at the Subiaco Library from Friday 11 February – Friday 11 March 2022.

17/10/2021

Iwan Iwanoff continues to get the recognition he so deserves.
Warren Anderson and the Iwanoff family mounted an incredible exhibition at the Cullity Gallery. Warren’s passion and research have uncovered some amazing new finds, and the original sketches, plans and contemporary reviews of Iwan’s work were fascinating.
I’m proud to have played a small part in this show.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-17/mid-century-style-at-its-best-in-perth/100535500

When Iwan Iwanoff designed a home he focused on every detail including custom furniture, fit-outs and light switches in hard-to-find places to ensure form and functionality. Decades after his death, his work is now the focus of an exhibition and upcoming book.

17/02/2021

We shot Shelter Brewery for Paul Burnham Architect recently. Paul is well known for Little Creatures in Freo, you'll see some similarities with Busselton's newest building.
https://www.archdaily.com/956860/shelter-brewery-paul-burnham-architect?utm_source=offices&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=just-published

Completed in 2020 in Busselton, Australia. Images by Robert Frith. Shelter Brewery is located in Busselton, Western Australia, and is sited at the foot of the famous mile-long jetty originally dating from 1865. The...

14/12/2020

My first SLR was a secondhand OM1. This is a fascinating read that makes me realise how much of that tiny, jewel like camera I took for granted.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/47675/fixing-an-old-film-camera-part-2-first-do-no-harm?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=We+finally+tore+down+the+PS5&utm_campaign=2020_US+Newsletter_Holiday+%237&vgo_ee=sZ%2FoPFc3agjr5uCJwCXDuuaCfsgUqzaoUpyw0ud%2Fk%2FU%3D

In which we take apart far too much of a very complicated camera, only to discover a single loose screw fixed the whole thing. Repair! It’s fun.

27/08/2020

Chuffed to hear that Steele Bishop's 1983 World Championship bike will finally be dusted off as part of the WA Museum's new displays.

Steele was the first Western Australian to win a world championship in the 5,000m pursuit at the 1983 UCI World Championship in Zurich, Switzerland on 26 August 1983.

His story and his bike with its world champion rainbow stripes on the frame will be featured in the new Western Australian Museum's Reflections gallery.

I did this portrait of Steele with the bike at the Museum store in 2016 when it last saw the light of day as part of the WA Historical Cycle Club's exhibition "Our Hidden Cycling History". It was the first time I met him and I'm proud to call him a friend today.

30/07/2020

Isolation Portraits - Josh & Millie

"Just before the borders closed, when the word overseas and over east was that this virus could be very dangerous for the vulnerable in the community, I packed my partner Tanya into her ute and down south to isolate at our property near Albany. Tan has an auto-immune condition and suffered a SCAD heart attack a year ago.

Moet and Ollie, our dog and cat joined her but at the last minute we decided it may be best for Miss Millie to stay in Perth with me. And what a delight she is. She was only 5 months old when Tan left and she really gave me some company to look forward to after long days at work.

When she's out of her coup she sits on the chair next to me in my Zoom meetings or follows me around like a little puppy. I’m not sure she gets the whole social distancing thing - she has to be within about 2 feet of me at all times. With her help I’ve had my best 2nd quarter in real estate ever (that’s over 20 years). And as a bonus she’s started laying."

Thanks

https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

29/07/2020

Isolation Portraits - Jono and Beth

Beth
The day’s rhythm. Get up at 5, read the headlines, check the covid numbers-general US, California, the world, WA. Then dressIng in workout gear, stretch, gradIng assignments, Checking emails, teachIng online for large chunks of time watching students come and go, hearing excuses for incomplete work sometimes seeing some good work. Then walking, listening to a talking book, eating dinner, washing up, some reading or TV and repeat.

Jono
On the beach in the last darkness before nautical dawn watching the ISS scoot across to disappear in the early beams, waiting in trepidation of the depooled squadders’ yowls of protest on entering the ocean to break the tranquility. We are on the mend when they return to their luke warm pools.

https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

15/07/2020

"Henderson ordered work to commence before waiting for a response from England. The buildings’ constructed differed in detail from the design types submitted; however, the design and the actual construction were based on contemporary English workers’ housing."
https://insearchofperth.com.au/story/warders-cottages/

09/07/2020

I thought it might be time to do something useful with my life :-)

For a couple of years I’ve been working (slowly) on a side project incorporating photography and writing about Perth’s built environment. Initial impetus was provided by my desire to update the good work that was done by Geoffrey London and Patrick Bingham Hall in their 2002 book ‘A Short History of Perth Architecture’.

I’ve dispensed with the idea of producing a book for the time being. Settling on a definitive list of structures is just too daunting, not to mention making a publication deadline. So the work will be published online. A simple format; a single square image in either colour or black and white accompanied by a short essay. At present the site is being funded by me. Fabulous web designers OM4, have made a very generous in-kind contribution and are listed as sponsors along with me under the Acorn Photo banner. I hope to find two additional sponsors to help with the ongoing hosting costs.

A good resource of existing images and the time and enthusiasm to create new work where needed make this pretty easy to keep alive. My hope is to interest people engaged with design and the built environment in contributing essays that illuminate aspects of our local design history and offer personal perspectives on our city and region.

There are just four buildings up at the moment - let’s see if I can add another each week! Follow on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter to get notifications of updates, and check out the In Search Of Perth website; https://insearchofperth.com.au/

In Search of Perth showcases our most interesting buildings and architectural landmarks.