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Gary Sauer-Thompson

photographer (Australia) 

I was born in Ashburton, New Zealand, and educated as a political economist at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. I worked in Wellington and Auckland as an economist before leaving to live in Melbourne, Australia.

In Melbourne I worked on the trams for several years a conductor, whilst I studied photography at the Photographic Studies College in City Rd, Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria.

I shifted to Adelaide, South Australia had a studio and darkroom in Bowden and photographed Bowden in the 1980s prior to its gentrification. (Its website is here). I studied visual art and philosophy at the Flinders University of South Australia, eventually gaining a PhD in philosophy. After working as an academic I became a policy/political advisor in Canberra for several years.I currently live in Victor Harbor with Suzanne and with two standard poodles called Maleko and Kayla.

Most recent articles

Poodle Walks 70

just snaps

When Suzanne was sick and in the Victor Harbor hospital I was walking both standard poodles (Akira and Maya) on my own. It was disciplined walking as I would walk along the coastal path in the early morning to Dep’s Beach, and then we would walk ...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
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Harmful algae bloom and stormwater runoff

I haven’t posted here since Kalani’s death from eating parts of a dead fish contaminated with brevetoxins from Karenia cristata. Though the daily poodlewalks with Maya have continued I have more or less stayed away from walking along the co...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
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Kalani: in memoriam

We –Suzanne May and I– scattered Kalani’s ashes around his favourite spot in the Waitpinga bushland this morning. He died 2 weeks ago from being poisoned after eating a dead fish contaminated with the toxic micro alga bloom . It happe...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 30

bushland studies #2: mono no aware

The traditional or pre-modern Japanese aesthetic category of mono no aware generally refers to impermanence of things. It is often interpreted as the ‘pathos of things’–“pathos” (aware) of “things” (mono), deriving from their tr...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 75

Kings Head revisited

We have stayed away from walking amongst the rocks on the coast this year due to the ongoing prevalence of the toxic micro algae bloom. We (Maya and I) did walk around to Kings Head when it was pretty clear of the algae bloom on a late afternoon walk. ...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
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bushland studies: the indistinct (“In’ei”)

This companion post to the previous bushland studies one is concerned with exploring the pre-modern Japanese aesthetic category of the indistinct (In’ei) in an Australian context. “In’ei” refers to the state of dimness or shadow created when direct lig...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 65

bushland studies

I have been photographing small details in the local bushland in contrast to thinking of the camera as an aggressive device: an instrument for shooting, capturing and representing the world. The word ‘to take ‘ express this approach to phot...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 75

Kalani + roadside photography

In the last month I have been walking with Kalani, our new male standard poodle puppy, in the early morning. We picked Kalani up in February from Katsto Kennels in the La Trobe Valley in Gippsland, Victoria on our way back from a week’s walking i...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 85

A walking art memoriam’

These photographic fragments of a walk artwork are a memoriam to those times when Maleko, our silver standard poodle, and myself spent together walking and hanging about in the local Waitpinga bushland in South Australia’s southern Fleurieu Penin...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 85

a photowalk in the Waitpinga bushland

This is a construction of my daily morning poodlewalk in the local Waitpinga bushland with Maya, in South Australia’s windy outhern Fleurieu Peninsula. Maya is our standard poodle and is just over a year old. The bushland, which is in Ngarrindjer...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 75

a cool summer

The recently passed 2023-24 summer was a strange one. It was notable for being cool, overcast, stormy, rainy with sea fog and mist. With the unusual weather I went on more early morning poodlewalks with Maya to the Rosetta Head headland (The Bluff...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 70

Hiatus

t has been about five months since the last post on poodlewalks. Even though I was walking with the poodles and making photos in this period I wasn't thinking in terms of a walking art project. The post Hiatus appeared first on Poodle Walks.

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 85

meditative walking + photography

My still photography, which is made whilst walking with the standard poodles in the local bushland, has been changing. It has changed from photography as a way of objectifying and distancing us from the world towards an understanding that the practic...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 65

photographic abstraction

Whilst walking I have been thinking about how the broad drift in photographic culture has been to problematize or reject photography as a realistic and documentary form, even though the actual condition of photography as a networked image is multiface...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
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Hobbled walking

My twice-a-day poodlewalks during the six weeks that Suzanne was wearing her moonboot to help heal her broken fibula were hobbled ones. I was walking both standard poodles, but as I’d badly damaged my back early in that six weeks I wasn’t a...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 75

the photographic + walking with Maya

An update on making photos whilst walking with Maya. She is now between 5-6 months old and is quite comfortable walking for an hour or so with me along the coastal rocks on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula. As we are on the cusp of winter in South Austr...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 70

walking with Maya

My early morning, off-lead walks with Maya, our new standard poodle pup, have slowly become longer whilst she reached 16 weeks and had her final round of injections. The walks have included beaches, coastal trails, fairgrounds, hills and bushland. What...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
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early autumn 2023

I have started to a few some morning walks along the coast with Maya. As she is still just 11 weeks old we need to continue to avoid other dogs until she has her second round of injections at 12 weeks. So we start our walks early in the morning before ...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
Poodle Walks 65

Maya

Currently the early morning poodlewalks are very restricted as I am walking Maya, our new female standard silver pup. This week the walks are on the small beach in front of Whalers Convention Centre and restaurant then on the selected beaches along the...

Gary Sauer-Thompson
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in Melbourne: Mornington

Whilst staying in Mornington Melbourne we went for several early morning walks with Maleko to, and around, a local wetland at Narambi Station Reserve and the Mornington railway line. The post in Melbourne: Mornington appeared first on Poodle Walks.

Gary Sauer-Thompson
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To walk slowly and in a leisurely fashion, as in “The old man was just soggin’ along.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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