Alan Weedon is a journalist and photographer specialising in design and social history.

Most recently, he was an audio producer at ABC Radio National, the talks and ideas network of Australia's public-service broadcaster, the ABC. There, he produced daily and weekly programmes for RN, including its live panels program, Big Ideas, and arts shows including Blueprint For Living, Return Ticket, The Art Show.

Prior to RN, Alan was a multi-platform journalist for the ABC’s 24-hour Asia Pacific Newsroom.

Alan also pursues a photographic practice. His photographic work is held in private collections, and has twice been a finalist in the Australian National Portrait Gallery’s National Portrait Prize. His previous photography clients are found below.

He is now based in London.

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.

A conversation I produced for ABC RN's Blueprint For Living with type designer Marie Boulanger. Her book, XX XY: Sex, Letters, and Stereotypes looked at the reasons why we seem to anthropomorphise type, specifically, the ways some of us continue to attribute gender to certain typefaces.

An archive of my journalism for the ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom. A foreign affairs newsroom with a focus on Australia's immediate region.

An article for ABC News on Thomas Sauvin's Beijing Silvermine — a vast found photography archive that charts the rise of China's dramatic turn to a consumer society.

An article looking into the ways two housing towers — one public, one private — were treated radically differently by Victorian authorities during Melbourne's second lockdown.

An article looking into the decline of Victoria's public housing stock, and the fate of public housing tenants amid an unprecedented housing renewal program, which will see some public housing estates sold to private developers.

A longform interactive piece I wrote, photographed, and producer, looking at the fate of Australia's post-war architectural heritage.

An article for ABC News on understanding the nuances of the Pacific's gender identities — distinct from how the West understands gender diversity.

My portrait of musician Simon Lam was a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery of Australia's 2019 National Portrait Prize.

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground, looking at the long arc of Melbourne's environmental history. Prior to colonisation, the land around the CBD was home to Billabongs, creeks and swamps. It’s this history that informed proposals for an inner urban development that straddles what was once a seasonal lagoon.

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground, dissecting the overwhelming community backlash to a skate park proposal in one of Sydney's most affluent neighbourhoods.

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground. This is an interview with Salvadorian-American landscape architect Mia Lehrer, on the contradictions of life in Los Angeles — and how design literacy can give the city's disenfranchised a stake in their local communities.

An essay I penned for British music publication The Quietus, looking at the queer undercurrents that seep through popular imaginings of traditional Australian masculinity.

'Breaking Lab' is a written and photographic profile I penned for the magazine, Men In This Town, profiling the work of Hillvale, an independent film processing lab in Brunswick, Australia.

For people of mixed-raced backgrounds, being seen as predominantly white affords a lot of privilege. I talked to a bunch of Eurasian-Australians to flesh out this complicated context.

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.

A photography project by Melbourne-based film developmer, Hillvale. C-41 colour negative film stitched together to create a continuous loop of photographs shot by local photographers run through a series of cogs in an installation called ‘The Hillvale Stitch-Up Machine’.

A profile for Vice Australia on the country's "most notorious piss fetishist", Troughman.

An interview with Melbourne-based artist, Benjamin Prabowo Sexton (né Lichtenstein) for Vice Australia.

Australia is an inherently camp nation, and our abiding love for Eurovision is one way to understand that. I explored this for a British audience in The Quietus.