Matthew Buchanan

"People die and things change but sometimes you wish they didn’t, or at least that they would..."

Wed, 26 May 2010 16:02:03 +1200

“People die and things change but sometimes you wish they didn’t, or at least that they would hold back and the world would stop turning just for a while. But that would mean that there was no longer work to be done. Paul was clever and funny and moody and brisk, and he left early. He had things to do.”

- From Chad Taylor’s heartfelt tribute to Paul Reynolds, a local strategist, broadcaster and all-round institution who passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. Rest well Paul.

An exhibition of photographs by Dean Rogers opens this weekend...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:47:58 +1300

An exhibition of photographs by Dean Rogers opens this weekend at the Wapping Project in London, depicting the locations where nine of our cultural heroes were killed in car crashes. Here: cosmic rocker Marc Bolan, September 16, 1977. (via Peter Nidzgorski)

From Days with My Father, a photo essay by Phillip Toledano....

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:23:20 +1200

From Days with My Father, a photo essay by Phillip Toledano. (via Jack Shedd)

"I wasn’t expecting to see a young man in jeans and a summer shirt waiting for death, looking..."

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:03:13 +1200

“I wasn’t expecting to see a young man in jeans and a summer shirt waiting for death, looking me in the eye.”

- From Vaughan Thomas’ short, chilling narrative for The Guardian, “Last Year I Killed A Man”. (via Jonic Linley)