Jamie Williams Photography

I have been documenting the Sydney Street Choir for over 2 years after a chance meeting with one of its members, Kelvin, while riding our bicycles in the Sydney CBD. “What do you do?”, he asked, dispensing with any social pleasantries as we sat waiting for the lights to turn green. A little taken aback I replied, [...]

I recently met multimedia artist Julia Burns who invited me to come along to her public twitter experiment. She transformed a bit of Martin Place, Sydney, into her lounge room, complete with couch and heater, and twittered about her life as the lunchtime crowd strolled by.
Julia is interested in how people use and interact with new [...]

Interesting piece on photo snobism over on Thoughts of a Bohemian. It’s actually pretty spot on in my experience.

Despite my best intentions in recent years, bad weather, need for sleep or lack of motivation has prevented me from going into the city on ANZAC Day to pay tribute to the servicemen and women who sacrificed part of their life, or in many cases sacrificed their lives, to fight wars in distant lands so that we could enjoy the freedoms [...]

Yesterday a 23 year old chapter of inner-west sporting history closed. John Peetz’s reign as head honcho at the Camperdown Park Tennis Centre came to a sad end. The courts, which do suffer from a lack of maintenance through lack of appropriate funding, are to be redeveloped by new owners, who according to John controversially won the tender.
In [...]

Check out MJ’s arcade game collection in this crazy virtual tour. I toyed (pun intended) with the idea of bidding for one of these when they were up for auction at Julien’s. Then MJ pulled the plug on the deal, so I was spared the heartache about which one to choose. Found this courtesy of garry.

check out this epic photo project on the tour de france by brent humpheys on one of my favourite photo blogs, what’s the jackanory?

bob log blog. try saying that a few times quickly.
bob log iii was in town to kick off  the annandale hotel’s (my local) 9th birthday week of gigs. it has been around much longer, but there was a period of time back in the late 90’s where it wasn’t a live music venue, so it’s 9 years [...]

relations between uyghurs and han chinese are at an all time low following a spate of voilence that has resulted in over 150 deaths in urumqi, the capital of china’s far-western xinjiang (which means new frontier in mandarin) province, an area known as east turkestan before mao and his red army invaded in 1949, yet [...]

his holiness the 14th dalai lama, who turned 74 yesterday (although that’s just in this life) so in honour of this i thought i’d share some images i have made of him on his recent visits to australia. i haven’t been fortunate enough to have on-on-one time with this great man, but hopefully these communicate his compassion, [...]