Alan Weedon is a journalist and photographer specialising in design and social history.

Most recently, he was an audio producer at ABC Radio National, the talks and ideas network of Australia's public-service broadcaster, the ABC. There, he produced daily and weekly programmes for RN, including its live panels program, Big Ideas, and arts shows including Blueprint For Living, Return Ticket, The Art Show.

Prior to RN, Alan was a multi-platform journalist for the ABC’s 24-hour Asia Pacific Newsroom.

Alan also pursues a photographic practice. His photographic work is held in private collections, and has twice been a finalist in the Australian National Portrait Gallery’s National Portrait Prize. His previous photography clients are found below.

He is now based in London.

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.

An autobiographical audio documentary I made for ABC Radio National's History Listen, looking into the mass migration of Filipina women to Australia in the late 20th-century. I was awarded ABC Radio National's Tony Barrell Fellowship to make this documentary — a fellowship that celebrates one of RN's most creative audio makers.

An ABC Big Ideas panel I produced looking into who gets to control how housing is designed and delivered. Guests included the award-winning architect Carles Baiges Camprubi, Yale's Enid Storm Dwyer professor of architecture Keller Easterling, and RMIT University urban planning scholar, Libby Porter. This panel was produced in collaboration with Melbourne's annual urbanism conference, the Living Cities Forum.

As one of the most ubiquitous pieces of design in our lives, typefaces come to us at the end of a long research and development cycle that few of us ever get to see. In this process, the values and tastes of a given society are embedded in a typeface, and this is where assumptions about gender can carry into type — be it consciously or unconsciously.

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.