This picture of an opal miners hut at Andamooka in South Australia, which is from my film archives --- an example of ordinariness or a deadpan aesthetic that was made whilst travelling on the margins of modernity.
Like the previous images the picture was made with a Leica M4-P, with a 50mm f.2 Summicron lens and Kodak 400ASA film. As previously mentioned in an earlier post I discovered a roll of film I'd exposed whilst I was visiting Andamooka circa 2004-5. My film work at the time--35mm and medium format--- was usually developed and scanned by a pro-lab, but for some reason this roll hadn't been scanned. This was several years prior to buying my first digital camera. I had no knowledge of digital cameras.
The deadpan aesthetic draws attention to the neglected, the unseen and the idea of the unseen. It is a gaze at the ordinary architecture of a frontier mining landscape. This aesthetic deploys the meta-framing of documentary photography in its traditional form whilst refusing its drama or being nostalgic for a lost reality.