IDLE HOURS

What will leisure look like in the future? How and where will we gather, and will it be safe to do so? In our climate to come, will our natural environment remain a place of respite and rapture?

Be not solitary, be not idle (2018-ongoing) records contemporary scenes of outdoor social recreation in the Victorian landscape. Conceived in an uncertain time for society and the climate, the series seeks to document, celebrate and perhaps hold tight experiences that are essential to collective and individual wellbeing: rest, human connection and spending time in nature. 

Images from Be Not Solitary, Be Not Idle were commissioned and exhibited at Photo 2024 International Festival of Photography in Melbourne, part of the Parliament Victoria commission.

Be not solitary, be not idle is a line taken The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton.