N.A.S. editor Ethan Scotney interviews Award winning photographer William Yang. Yang’s photographic career spans decades, and he has built one of Australia’s most distinctive photographic archives. Ethan asks Yang about his practise as a documentary photographer, how photos can be tools for change, what it was like documenting Sydney’s queer scene in the early 80s and the future of photography.

Sydney photographer Denis Hasagic, on assignment with a single roll of slide film and a loose idea of what he wants to capture. A documentary project about the Cooks River; the good, the bad, and its future in the fabric of the city.

After taking a break from photography, Martina Reyes had an urge to dive back in. She started going out, and fell into shooting local bands. “Without a camera, I don’t think I would have talked to them. They seem too cool and inaccessible.” In this series, Reyes documents the life of the party, the ecstasy of the rhythm and the communities and friendships built around the scene.

Photographic series ‘Falling Down, Burning Bright’ by Sienna Baxter slips in and out of abstraction, capturing the nocturnal blur of Sydney and its youth. Baxter is psychologically present in the photos, an overwhelmed observer behind the lens: “As I walk the streets, get amongst the crowds moving by, I feel myself, somberly, slowly, slipping into the cracks and losing myself in the craziness of the surrounding environment.”

Essay by Daniel Merson with photos by Pinga Matereke, ‘All Part of the

Falling Apart of Things’ is a gritty, confessional portrait of inner-city Sydney.  “At the bottom of the stairs local kids have arranged the junk in strange structures on the street. A woman’s toiletries are splayed across the pavement, with bitchy messages written in lipstick on the floor. I lay back down and look at the ceiling, picturing the outdoors. It’s warm, and the navy ships echo some terrifying anthem across the city.”