Alan Weedon

2024

BBC World Service

An audio documentary charting the cinematic absurdity of the Los Angeles River, and the efforts of Angelenos to fix it. To do this I traced the career of the award-winning Salvadorian-American landscape architect Mia Lehrer, who's made it her life's work to resurrect the river from its concrete coffin.

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2023

ABC Radio National

This autobiographical documentary used the story of my late mother to tell a broader story about Filipina migration to Australia. In turn, my mother's migration story, and tens of thousands of other Filipinas like her, revealed a bigger story about how the Philippine state championed marriage migration by the late 20th-century, using beauty pageants to market the notion of the "Filipina beauty".

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2019

Sydney Opera House

Backstage portraits of speakers at the Sydney Opera House's annual talks and ideas festival, Antidote.

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2023

ABC Radio National

An autobiographical reflection I wrote to coincide with the release of my History Listen documentary, Visions of the Filipina Bride. This reflected on the passing of my late mother and the broader geopolitical and sociological forces that influenced her migration to Australia.

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2019

Trocadero Art Gallery

‘Inheritance’ is a trip through Hayley Millar-Baker and Alan Weedon’s inherited photographic archives from their paternal relatives: white men of an inter-war Australia that has since been confined to the history books. For the artists, the world that is presented — Millar-Baker’s Grandfather and Weedon’s Father — is fragmented, as they died long before the artists were in a position to find out more.

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2023

ABC Radio National

This was a public talk I curated and produced for Big Ideas — ABC Radio National's live events program — in collaboration with Melbourne's annual urbanism conference, the Living Cities Forum. This talk analysed the broader power structures, beyond the architect's pen, that define what housing looks like.

Panellists included Carles Baiges Camprubi, co-founder of the EU Mies van der Rohe Award-winning architecture cooperative, LaCol, Keller Easterling, Yale's Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture, and Libby Porter, director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University.

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2022

National Portrait Prize

My portrait of I took in the midst of Melbourne's rolling lockdowns was a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery of Australia's 2022 National Portrait Prize.

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2022

ABC Science

A longform interactive article produced in collaboration with ABC Science's Belinda Smith. I contributed reporting and photography. The feature later was selected to be part of the 2023 Best Australian Science Writing Anthology.

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2021

Monash Gallery of Art

This portrait made it into Monash Gallery of Art's Life in Lockdown exhibition, which included work by people who lived through Victoria’s lockdowns during 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

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2019

Liminal Magazine

A profile of the lauded Australian photographer, William Yang.

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2016

Swampland

Swampland was an independent publishing project dedicated to Australian music — I was its creative director. Running from 2016 to 2019 we published longform journalism and original photography—mostly in print, occasionally online.

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2023

ABC Radio National

A Blueprint For Living interview with Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell — editors of Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories. It's an atlas of more than 90 spaces — the domestic, communal, and public — representing home for queer communities, including an ice-cream parlour in Havana, an abandoned Nicaraguan cathedral, and the fantastical castles of the reclusive Bavarian King Ludwig II.

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2023

ABC Radio National

A Blueprint For Living interview with Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out.

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2023

ABC Radio National

A Blueprint for Living interview with architectural scholars June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones. They have been documenting the phenomenon of retrofitted suburbia, where dead malls and other 'underperforming' properties are remade to meet people's needs. This has seen malls turn into community health centres, Kmarts into schools, while huge office parks now host thriving medium-density communities.

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2023

ABC Radio National

A tour of Dublin via its literary history for ABC Radio National's travel podcast, Return Ticket.

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2022

ABC Radio National

An interactive article I wrote, photographed, and produced for ABC Radio National online. This profiles the work of Reef Design Lab — an industrial design studio invested in marine restoration projects — and the emerging field of eco-engineering.

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2022

ABC Radio National

A Blueprint for Living interview with Robyn Healy about the life and work of Japanese designer, Issey Miyake. She was the National Gallery of Australia's inaugural curator of international fashion in the 1980s, and later became the National Gallery of Victoria's senior curator of fashion and textiles – institutions among the first in Australia to collect Miyake's work.

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2022

ABC Radio National

A Blueprint For Living interview with Loata Ho, Fiji's only architecturally trained Indigenous woman, and the founder of architectural practice WomenBuild. Her award-winning work is designed to help bring Fijian women into the design process, and de-mystify the role of the architect in regional communities across Fiji.

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2022

ABC Radio National

A Blueprint For Living interview with Marcia Chatelain about McDonalds and Black America. From the civil rights era onward, McDonalds — in concert with the US federal government — promoted black franchise ownership to advance African American social and economic mobility. Chatelain compiled these intersecting histories in 'Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America', winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for history.

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2022

ABC Radio National

For this episode of RN's travel podcast, Return Ticket, we toured Bangkok... by mall. Using the luxury mall Icon Siam as our focus, I told a bigger story about the city by travelling up and down the mall's varied words — from the recreation of a Thai fishing village, to a Michelin-starred Parisian restaurant, to how street hawkers became mall hawkers.

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