Melbourne Photographer and Videographer Michael Bainbridge » Photo Essay

After the Earthquake, Before the Earthquake

bainbridge — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:22:40 +0000

On the 4th September 2010, Christchurch was hit by 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Since that day there have been over 7,000 aftershocks, 3news in New Zealand reported in January that the aftershocks were causing a spike in recovering alcoholics suffering a relapse with numbers increasing tenfold. Early one morning I walked down Manchester st and turned off onto Tuam Street as I was coming to Barbadoes St on the left hand side was a car park. Part of the area seemed designated to bricks from condemned buildings as the trucks lined up ready to dump more on an already mounting pile. As I approached a man in a suit walked gingerly towards a hole in the fence placing an empty bottle of vodka into an overflowing box of empty bottles. I wondered how long he had been doing this, was it a monthly routine, a weekly routine, perhaps a daily routine? It seemed to be his statement on life in Christchurch after the quake, all before the the working day had begun. I was there just a few weeks before Christchurch suffered the fatal 6.3 magnitude earthquake on the 22nd February where 181 people died.

New Zealand Landscape – Aerials

bainbridge — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:00:04 +0000

Aerials Part I

Aerials Part II

Aerials Part III

Aerials Part IV

Venus Bay Road Trip

bainbridge — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:55:34 +0000

Kinder Sarprise (Portrait Session)

bainbridge — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:56:29 +0000

Laos Rocket Festival – Bun Bang Fai

bainbridge — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:02:12 +0000

Around Melbourne Town

bainbridge — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:20:37 +0000

Shots taken from around Melbourne over a couple year time frame. Most photographs are taken within inner city areas, West Melbourne, Fitzroy and the city of Melbourne.

The Photographic Essay, documents the industrial and urban landscape in contrast to the day to day happenings of Melbourne life.