Port Melbourne 01

Port Melbourne 01. 2021

Four containers fill the frame like oversized colour blocks, corporate blues and a single strip of red worn down by salt and time. The light rakes in from the side and every dent, scuff and rust streak turns into drawing on the metal, while shadows from a nearby fence quietly grid the surface. At the bottom edge, weeds and grasses push up against all that manufactured order. This picture sits between branding and entropy, using repetition and tight framing to turn a Port Melbourne stack of freight into a kind of accidental mural about movement, labour and the way surfaces remember every journey.

70 mm • f/5.6 • 1/125 sec, ISO 64