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.
2021
ABC Radio National
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.
2018 — 21
ABC News
An archive of my journalism for the ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom. A foreign affairs newsroom with a focus on Australia's immediate region.
2021
ABC News
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.
2020
ABC News
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.
2020
ABC News
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.
2020
ABC News
A longform interactive piece I wrote, photographed, and producer, looking at the fate of Australia's post-war architectural heritage.
2019
ABC News
An article for ABC News on understanding the nuances of the Pacific's gender identities — distinct from how the West understands gender diversity.
2019
National Portrait Gallery
My portrait of musician Simon Lam was a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery of Australia's 2019 National Portrait Prize.
2018
Foreground
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.
2017
Foreground
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.
2017
Foreground
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.
2016
The Quietus
An essay I penned for British music publication The Quietus, looking at the queer undercurrents that seep through popular imaginings of traditional Australian masculinity.
2016
Men In This Town
'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.
2016
i-D Magazine/VICE
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.
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.
2016
Independent Photography Festival
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’.
2016
Vice
2015
Vice
An interview with Melbourne-based artist, Benjamin Prabowo Sexton (né Lichtenstein) for Vice Australia.
2015
The Quietus
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.