Ryota Hisanabe

Ryota Hisanabe is an Australian-Japanese photographer living in Spain.

I’ve started to take photography since I was eleven or twelve years old, influenced by record jackets in the 90’s in Japan. It becomes more serious/passionate after entering a university by studying industrial design. German photography impressed me a lot at the study, and now and then their style is always behind my photography ideas.

I love humans but, at the same time, I hate them. We are beautiful and ugly. I don’t take photos of any people, because it gives so much energy to me. Instead, I take photos of a trace of humanity. The sense of people. That may be what I cannot touch but I am willing to obtain, thus I record it as a two dimensional format.

Photographs

Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, Germany — *Karl-Marx-Allee* (Berlin, Germany) Ryota Hisanabe

Fake ( 2010) Tokyo Nostalgia 10/40 — *Fake*, *Tokyo Nostalgia 10/40* (2010) Ryota Hisanabe

*Sunny poolside, Newcastle, NSW*, Ryota Hisanabe

Forbidden (2018) [1/250, F19, PORTRA 400] — *Forbidden* (1/250, F19, PORTRA 400, 2018) Ryota Hisanabe

flow 3 (2010) Tokyo Nostalgia 14/47 — *flow 3* (Tokyo Nostalgia 14/47, 2010) Ryota Hisanabe

Expenses (2022) Ryota Hisanabe — *Expenses* (2022) Ryota Hisanabe

Echo (2010) Tokyo Nostalgia 20/47 — *Echo Tokyo Nostalgia 20/47 (*2010) Ryota Hisanabe

*Brighton, Victoria, Australia* (2022) Ryota Hisanabe

December 3, 2025

Joyce Lee

It is nearly dark when I come to the Indian Ocean

Joyce Lee’s It is nearly dark when I come to the Indian Ocean, her collected works 1965–2003, was published by Stephen J. Williams in 2003. There is an introduction by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Lee died in 2007.
The complete book is also available on the National Library of Australia’s TROVE.

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December 3, 2025

Anne Casey shortlisted for ACU prize

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November 7, 2025

Anne Casey’s new book published by Salmon Poetry

https://www.salmonpoetry.com/

Anne Casey wrote on her social media accounts:

Absolutey thrilled to share the cover of my #new #book ‘Seang (Hungering)’ which is based on my award-winning #research and #poetry exploring the lost histories of a group of rebel girls who were daughters of #Irish #famine #immigrants to #Australia.

My eternal gratitude to the literary powerhouse Jessie Lendennie, Managing Director at Salmon Poetry for her stalwart support of my work over the past 10 years. Massive thanks to Siobhan Hutson Jeanotte for her beautiful design and painstaking production work. My heartfelt gratitude to AnthonyQuinnArtist for his stunning cover #art responding to my poetry.

There are a million people to thank… my #PhD supervisors, the late Gabrielle Carey whose encouragement never wavered, Associate Professor Bhuva Narayan and Dr Penni Russon for their wisdom and support. Poets, friends, inspirations, Eamonn Wall, Sarah Holland-Batt, Judith Beveridge, Wendy J. Dunn and so many others who are named in the book. My family always. Rory Lonergan

August 22, 2025

Steve Cox: ‘The Road to Ruin’

A virtual record of Steve Cox’s exhibition ‘The Road to Ruin’

The Road to Ruin

The exhibition was held at William Mora Galleries, August to September 2025.

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August 22, 2025

Susan Wald exhibition: ‘The Gathering’ — monotypes

Tacit Art is at 314 Johnston Street, Abbotsford, in Victoria.

March 31, 2025

An artificial intelligence poetry review

Les Wicks’ Time Taken

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in creative fields, including literary analysis. Here is a review of Les Wicks’ Time Taken, a new and selected book of poems published in 2025. The review is written and presented in the form of a podcast by artificial intelligence hosts.

I intentionally left the review unedited; my only intervention was to customize the tone to be adopted by the fictional hosts and to require them to quote extensively from the actual poems.

This experiment is published with permission of Les Wicks. This AI review contains several significant errors. Quotations are sometimes wrong, interpretations sometimes wrong, and the dialogue is annoyingly repetitive; but what do we expect? It’s made by a computer algorithm.

The process yields a linguistic analysis of a text’s themes, based simply on the words and phrases used in it. I’ve included some of this analysis in the notes to the video.

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—Stephen J. Williams