Alan Weedon is a Melbourne-based radio producer, photographer, and occasional writer, working on Wurundjeri land.

Presently, he's a producer for ABC Radio National's Big Ideas program. To find out more about Alan, read his interview with Liminal Magazine.

My portrait taken during one of Melbourne's numerous COVID-19 lockdowns was a finalist for the National Portrait Gallery's 2022 National Portrait Prize.

An interactive article I wrote, photographed, and produced for ABC Radio National online. This profiles the work of Reef Design Lab — an industrial design studio invested in marine restoration projects — and the emerging field of eco-engineering.

STAGES: life in lockdown includes work by people who lived through Victoria’s lockdowns during 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Participants responded to MGA’s callout for photographs that encapsulate individual experiences of life in these lockdowns. Growing progressively throughout the course of the exhibition and resulting in an explosion of images across MGA’s Atrium Gallery walls, this exhibition documents the lived experiences of people in our community, providing a cultural record of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A retrospective look at Syria's lost decade in interactive form. Written and reported by Tracey Shelton with design by Jarrod Fankhauser, this piece was nominated for a Walkley Award for Humanitarian Storytelling.

On the first anniversary of Beirut's deadly port blast, I produced an interview with Batoul Faour for ABC RN's Blueprint For Living. Batoul is a Lebanese Canadian architectural researcher and designer whose essay titled 'Glass Politics: On Broken Windows in Beirut', won the 2021 Avery Review Essay Prize.

A conversation I produced for ABC RN's Blueprint For Living with type designer Marie Boulanger. Her book, XX XY: Sex, Letters, and Stereotypes looked at the reasons why we seem to anthropomorphise type, specifically, the ways some of us continue to attribute gender to certain typefaces.

An article for ABC News on Thomas Sauvin's Beijing Silvermine — a vast found photography archive that charts the rise of China's dramatic turn to a consumer society.

A longform interactive piece I wrote, photographed, and producer, looking at the fate of Australia's post-war architectural heritage.

Backstage portraits for the Sydney Opera House's annual talks and ideas festival, Antidote.

An article for ABC News on understanding the nuances of the Pacific's gender identities — distinct from how the West understands gender diversity.

Inheritance was an exhibition in collaboration with artist Hayley Millar-Baker, drawing upon our inherited photographic archives from our paternal relatives — giving us the opportunity to investigate hidden truths, forced appearances, or sublimated desires.

My portrait of musician Simon Lam was a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery of Australia's 2019 National Portrait Prize.

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground, looking at the long arc of Melbourne's environmental history. Prior to colonisation, the land around the CBD was home to Billabongs, creeks and swamps. It’s this history that informed proposals for an inner urban development that straddles what was once a seasonal lagoon.

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground. This is an interview with Salvadorian-American landscape architect Mia Lehrer, on the contradictions of life in Los Angeles — and how design literacy can give the city's disenfranchised a stake in their local communities.

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground, dissecting the overwhelming community backlash to a skate park proposal in one of Sydney's most affluent neighbourhoods.

'Breaking Lab' is a written and photographic profile I penned for the magazine, Men In This Town, profiling the work of Hillvale, an independent film processing lab in Brunswick, Australia.

Selected portraits of those familiar or foreign over the years.

Swampland was an independent publishing project dedicated to Australian music — I was its creative director. Running from 2016 to 2019 we published longform journalism and original photography—mostly in print, occasionally online.

A photography project by Melbourne-based film developmer, Hillvale. C-41 colour negative film stitched together to create a continuous loop of photographs shot by local photographers run through a series of cogs in an installation called ‘The Hillvale Stitch-Up Machine’.

An essay I penned for British music publication The Quietus, looking at the queer undercurrents that seep through popular imaginings of traditional Australian masculinity.