Outskirts (2009)
Photographs made in 8 Mile Settlement, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Paisawa (2008 - )
Paisawa is the name of a family who who come from Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea. This ongoing series of photographs comes from time spent with the Paisawa family, who have now spread to Oro Province and Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea.
A Lifeline, Not a Cost (2009)
The Aborigines & Islanders Alcohol Relief Service (AIARS) has been providing accommodation and drug and alcohol counselling to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for thirty-one years. The service has always been funded by the Australian Federal Government with approximately $1.6 million each year. In October this year, staff and patients received news that funding was to cease at the end of November, giving them only six weeks notice of the closure of the service. This abrupt decision has left AIARS no choice but to close its doors. The service will no longer operate after this date. AIARS owns two properties, Douglas House in Cairns, and Rose Colless Haven near Mareeba. The clients of AIARS now face an uncertain future, many of whom say that without AIARS they will have little hope of battling, let alone beating, their addictions.
Liberty Dock / Portraits of U.S. Marines & Sailors in Cairns (2009)
On the 28th of June, two US warships, The USS Essex and the USS Tortuga, docked in Cairns for nine days. This series of portraits of the service men and women aboard from these ships was made in and around the centre of Cairns during this time. Some of the portraits were also made on board the USS Essex.
Mass Burial of Unclaimed Bodies. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (2009)
On the 13th of February 2009, approximately sixty unclaimed bodies were removed from Port Moresby Morgue and buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, outside the capital city. Some of the bodies had been stored in refrigerated shipping containers for nearly two years, leaving many of them badly decomposed.
Malum Nalu, a journalist who lives and works in Port Moresby, maintains a blog on contemporary issues in Papua New Guinea:
Shopfronts & Streetscapes: Photographs from the Inner-West (2009)
A selection of fourteen photographs made in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, NSW, between 2006 and 2008. On exhibition at the Leichhardt Library in April 2009.
TV Election (2008)
A portfolio of 68 photographs of the 2008 U.S. Election made from the television.
Day In, Day Out (2008)
A portfolio of images made with the new Canon G10 digital camera.
Limousines & Hearses (2008)
Limousines & Hearses (Part One) is the first of a three part colour series. This portfolio contains thirty photographs and is available in an edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs. Individual images from the series are also available in an edition of 15 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Read essay by Spiro Miralis
Pidgin (2006)
Pidgin is a series of photographs that evolved from a school friendship, a road trip up the east coast of Australia, and an invitation to visit Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea for the 30th anniversary of Independence in 2005.
'Pidgin is a different kind of road trip. It is a road trip mostly taken at night by a group of friends as they navigate, or more likely stagger through a landscape of drinking, driving and the pursuit of the next good time. The promise of that next good time is often obliterated by a haze of blur that leaves one with a slightly nauseated “contact” hangover. The power of these 48 images is that left over feeling of slight sickness attributed to trying to drink away that feeling of what it is to be on the cusp of adult life and being unsure of what the future holds.'
Jeff Ladd, 5B4 Photography & Books (2007)
Onwards & Upwards (2004)
Onwards & Upwards is a book of photographs made on a trip from Sydney to Brunswick Heads, on the north coast of NSW. Follow five friends as they travel and visit rest stops, beaches, tourist attractions, service stations, nightclubs, bars and different towns along the way.
Dog Food & Oysters (2004-05)
This series of photographs was made in America in 2004 and 2005. A portfolio of the work and an artist book is currently in progress.
A complete portfolio will be available online soon.
Hong Kong Portfolio by Felicity Davey (2008)
Felicity Davey's (Sean's mum) "Hong Kong Portfolio" is now available. The series was made with a point and shoot digital camera on a four day trip to Hong Kong in 2008.
This 10x8" portfolio is available in an edition of 10 plus two artist proofs, and is presented in a custom made clamshell box.
Anew Political Lancscape (2007)
Anew Political Landscape is a personal view of the 2007 Australian Federal Election campaign. Official political party signs and the landscapes in which they appear make up the majority of this work, as well as photographs of television images from the night of the election.
Resuscitation (2006)
NETS is an organisational unit of Sydney Western Area Health and consists of medical teams that travel the breadth of New South Wales responding to emergency calls from hospitals with infants and neonates requiring special intensive care. There are only ten hospitals in New South Wales that have intensive care facilities for newborns and children, all of them in metropolitan areas. It is common for NETS and Child Flight to retrieve patients from rural and regional areas, hours away even by air, to provide life saving medical treatment and to transport them to one of these hospitals.
In June and July 2006 NETS and Child Flight permitted Sean Davey to photograph their operation. Sean accompanied four medical retrieval teams to Fairfield, Armidale, Wyong and Lithgow and was permitted to photograph the retrieval process from beginning to end.
In 2007 The State Library of New South Wales purchased a set of twelve prints from "Resuscitation" for the library's permanent photographic collection.
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NETS
The Track (2005)
Each year mountain bike riders travel to Canberra, ACT, to compete in a 24 hour endurance marathon. This event is known to many riders as one of the toughest races on the Australian mountain bike circuit.
Eastcliff Poem (2003)
Eastcliff Poem is a series of photographs that was made in England in 2003, while Sean was living in the seaside town of Ramsgate in Kent. Superimposed with text, this series expresses personal thoughts and feelings of Sean's time in the area.
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