The Photographs of Len Johnston

AUSTRALIA

1969 to the present

Apart form a period 1980-81 residing in England (London and Oxford) I've lived in Australia.There have been trips.

Overseas: S.E.Asia, Central Asia, the Pacific, North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and NZ.

Australia: the East coast road from Wilson's Promintory in the south to Cape Tribulation FNQ in the north. Acoss the South, East to West and back. Tasmania. The West coast: Margaret River in the South to Monkey Mia, all Australia's capital cities.

Most years in Australia I've resided in Melbourne & Malmsbury in Victoria. Lengthy periods were spent in Tasmania and Sydney during the 1970s.

Coming Home 1982

1980s

On train to Warrnambool, Victoria, 1980

John Hull droving sheep at Saltwater River, Tasmania, 1982

John Hull with sheep at Saltwater River, Tasmania, 1982

Northern Victorian scrub, 1985

Self-image, Northern Victoria, 1985

Farm Shed , Red Cliffs, Northern Victoria, 1985

Puss, Red Cliffs, Northern Victoria, 1985

Cats , Red Cliffs, Northern Victoria, 1985

Sleeping Cat , Red Cliffs, Northern Victoria, 1985

Lake Alexandrina #1, South Australia, 1985

Lake Alexandrina #2, South Australia, 1985

SKIES

There are few breathtaking mountains in Australia...
Clouds above the flat horizon and broad plains appear like magical ephemeral mountains, in the mind.
The first series of photos I considered making (in the 1960s) was clouds.
Still now, there's nothing better to do on a summer's day than lay back, gaze on the clouds and dream!

#1 Mildura , Northern Victoria 1985

#2 Mildura , Northern Victoria 1985

#3 Mildura , Northern Victoria 1985

#4 Mildura , Northern Victoria 1985

#5 Mildura , Northern Victoria 1985

#6 Mildura , Northern Victoria 1985

#7 Mildura , Northern Victoria 1985

#8 Mildura , Northern Victoria 1985

Wind shaped tree on the Hume Highway, Victoria, 1987

Haystack, Victoria, 1987

USA

1991

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Crash, Chicago, 1991

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World Trade Centre, NYC, 1991

AUSTRALIA

2000s

Port Phillip, Victoria, 2007

Mie , Mt Macedon, Victoria, 2008

PHOTOS from 2010 to 2014

Due to an unfortunate experience with a disc drive neally all photographic work from the period 2010 to June 2014 is lost.

A hard drive ceased to function. It was at half capacity with practically all photos I had taken from2010 throughto June 2014. I think about 300-500gb of photos with nothing backed up. There have been three attempts to recover some data with no good news but considerable cost. Most work lost is general photography - Malmsbury Landscapes, Portraits of the people of Malmsbury, the preceding Cairns trip and a New Zealand South Isand trip. The portraits were a developed body of work, a visual record of many occupants of Malmsbury at that time with several people having already passed away. A few photos from that period have been found on SD cards but almost nothing else exists from that period. The only place that the preceding Cairns photos on this page exist is here on this website in low resolution. The following two photographs of Franz Joseph Glacier in NZ. were printed to participate in an exhibition in Taradale. I actually won first prize not realising it was a competition or probably wouldn't have particpated! Under those circumstances winning was nice and two photographs were printed the lone survivors of the NZ trip.

Any expertise or recommendations to help with data recovery gratefully received.
The hard drive is a Maxtor Basics External Desktop 1TB Hard Drive PN:9NZ2D8-500)

NEW ZEALAND

South Island, December 2010

Two visits to New Zealand to date - the North Island in 1990 and the South Island in 2010.

As outlined above the following two photos are the sole survivors.