Silent Streets

• Photographer
  Peter Ogden
• Technical Info
  ISO200 - 24mm – f/8 – 1/20s
• Photo Date
  15th August 2020
• Website
  https://www.thebrutalbeauty.com

The Frenchs Forest Bushland Cemetery is one of the main cemeteries on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. The first burial took place on 24th April 1940 and there’s been plenty of residents since then...so many that it had to develop its own streets, roundabouts and road rules. The mausoleums look like row upon row of terraced housing. The arrow formed by the re-laid tarmac seems to beckon the residents - ”This way to the Light.”

• Biography
  Australia is a landscape unique in its savagery and spectacle. Being UK born, I first arrived in Perth and that first experience saw me in the Nambung National Park whilst using a big stick to fend off brown snakes. I was the art director on a commercial photography shoot – keeping one eye on the back of the camera, the other firmly on the red dirt around the tripod. That juxtaposition, the incredibly beautiful landscape combined with the incredibly scary natural critters, has fascinated me ever since.
• Awards
  RECOGNITION Australian Photography Awards 2020 - Shortlisted International Photography Awards 2020 Honourable Mention x 2 - Architecture and Landscape categories Capture ‘Mono Awards 2020’ Highly Commended x 5 Capture ‘Mono Awards 2020’ Commended x 3 Monovisions Landscape Series 2020 Honourable Mention Capture ‘Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers 2020’ Commended x 2 Fine Art Photography Awards 2019 Landscape (Amateur) Nominee Australian Photography ‘Photographer of the Year 2019’ Highly Commended x 1 Australian Photography ‘Photographer of the Year 2019’ Commended x 3 Sydney Rides Gallery 2019 Shortlisted/Featured Capture ‘Mono Awards 2019’ Highly Commended x 2 Capture ‘Mono Awards 2019’ Commended x 1 Capture ‘Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers 2019’ Commended Australian Photography ‘Photographer of the Year 2018’ Commended PUBLISHED https://www.twentieth.org.au/peter-ogden/ https://www.twentieth.org.au/resources/cockatoo-island/ https://www.twentieth.org.au/resources/frenchs-forest-bushland-cemetery/