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The street photographer lay flat on his back under Sydney's frenetic Cahill expressway when the thought first drifted casually into his overtaxed mind. It was a glorious Australian late winter's day and he'd spent the previous moments pondering just why it is that seagulls don't eat peanuts. Using his camera bag as a make shift pillow, the cars and trains rattled and swooshed up top, his thoughts shifting seamlessly to psychological make up, and the workings of the mind. Thoughts of street photography and why. Was there perhaps a direct relationship between personality and this strange visual style of hunting the everyday. His interest in this possible correlation centered around an instantaneous theory, a suspicion that as a street photographer he had had very little say in actually being on the streets. In effect, he hadn't found street photography, street photography had found him ! Thoughts of determinism and free will fought their age old battle as the slightly disheveled, horizontal photographer tossed another peanut out towards the gulls.

-above extract taken from "Escaping Into Life" - Andrew Stark 2010

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"Andrew Stark's idiomatic and wryly observed urban photographs of Sydney, Australia, represent a vital continuation of documentary street photography, reflecting similar social concerns and the same aesthetic irony as Robert Frank, William Klein and Garry Winogrand."
- B&W Magazine (USA) (Nov/Dec 2003 edition)

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