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.

A radio documentary for the BBC World Service's In The Studio programme, looking at the fate of the Los Angeles River — a place that’s more memory than reality, or something that people either forget or mock as a concrete ditch. If you’re one for the underside of cities, the stories buried beneath concrete, this one’s for you, especially if LA Plays Itself still lingers in your mind.

A retrospective look at Syria's lost decade in interactive form. Written and reported by Tracey Shelton with design by Jarrod Fankhauser, this piece was nominated for a Walkley Award for Humanitarian Storytelling.

For decades now, Beirut citizens have had to defend themselves against glass shards by leaving windows open or taping them up, amid civil war, car-bomb attacks, and conflict with Israel. But nobody could've prepared for what happened just over a year ago, when the Lebanese Government became responsible for one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.

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

Inheritance was an exhibition in collaboration with artist Hayley Millar-Baker, drawing upon our inherited photographic archives from our paternal relatives — giving us the opportunity to investigate hidden truths, forced appearances, or sublimated desires.

As Australian cities become denser, some of the post-war homes that changed Australia forever are facing the bulldozer, so who’s going to save them once their owners are gone?

An autobiographical audio documentary I made for ABC Radio National's History Listen, looking into the mass migration of Filipina women to Australia in the late 20th-century. I was awarded ABC Radio National's Tony Barrell Fellowship to make this documentary — a fellowship that celebrates one of RN's most creative audio makers.

An autobiographical article looking into the challenges faced by Filipina migrants upon their arrival in Australia in the late 20th-century, specifically, their caricaturing by the Australian media at the time. Commissioned by ABC Radio National online, published on the ABC News website.

An ABC Big Ideas panel I produced looking into who gets to control how housing is designed and delivered. Guests included the award-winning architect Carles Baiges Camprubi, Yale's Enid Storm Dwyer professor of architecture Keller Easterling, and RMIT University urban planning scholar, Libby Porter. This panel was produced in collaboration with Melbourne's annual urbanism conference, the Living Cities Forum.

An interactive article on the precarious future of Victoria's Mountain Ash Forests I co-authored with ABC Science's Belinda Smith. This article was selected to form part of the 2023 Best Australian Science Writing anthology, published by NewSouth Books.

My portrait taken during one of Melbourne's numerous COVID-19 lockdowns was a finalist for the National Portrait Gallery's 2022 National Portrait Prize.

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

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.

STAGES: life in lockdown includes work by people who lived through Victoria’s lockdowns during 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Participants responded to MGA’s callout for photographs that encapsulate individual experiences of life in these lockdowns. Growing progressively throughout the course of the exhibition and resulting in an explosion of images across MGA’s Atrium Gallery walls, this exhibition documents the lived experiences of people in our community, providing a cultural record of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

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 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 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.

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