Live Breaking News & Updates on Foukis Professional Men

Review: Small Business, published by M.33, Melbourne, 2021
David Wadelton understands that photography is a form of time travel. Small Business, his new book of photographs, transports us to Melbourne’s vanishing architecture of interior workplaces created by largely working-class, post-war immigrants from Europe. It forms a natural complement to his first book, Suburban Baroque (2019), which paid homage to their domestic interiors.
Both books are the product of years of wandering, especially in the rapidly gentrifying inner north of Melbourne.
Wadelton has lived in Northcote since 1975, and has long shared his massive archive of initially black-and-white photos of his beloved suburb through his Facebook moniker Northcote Hysterical Society. Social media has proved an ideal vehicle for such obsessive localism, extending to the crowd-funding campaigns he uses to underwrite the publications. ....

South Melbourne , France General , Moonee Ponds , Nicky Winmar , David Wadelton , Northcote Hysterical Society , University Of Melbourne , Small Business , Suburban Baroque , Northcote Hysterical , Patti Shoes , Station Street , Thornbury Espresso , High Street Thornbury , Foukis Professional Men , Hair Stylist , Park Street , State Library , Fitzroy North , North Fitzroy , Monarch Cakes , Acland Street , Aboriginal St Kilda , Star Espresso Bar , Natalie King , Enterprise Professor ,