Historic Victoria - "Victoriana days gone by"

Karl has always had an abiding interest in photography and has been a keen amateur photographer for as long as he can remember.

Over the last decade he has focused his photography on landscape subjects, initially to provide a photo library for his other passion, which at that time was painting landscapes in oils and then as an art form in its own right.

During his frequent travels throughout Victoria, he discovered the innate beauty of Victoria's diverse countryside and the charm of the wonderful architecture and building styles of our pioneer's such as their homesteads and outbuildings as they settled throughout Victoria.

Unfortunately and even tragically, many of those fine homesteads, farm buildings and examples of early innovative building ideas and materials are now disappearing off the rural landscape.

Mostly the demise of these buildings has occurred because of the ravages of time, vandals and more recently as a result of farmers reshaping and restructuring their properties to meet the new demands of surviving the prevalent droughts which have brought economic hardship to so many in the farming community as well as the agricultural industry in general.

This exhibition was featured in his first solo exhibition held at Daylesford in 2006, and reflects the past year Karl has spent in the North East of Victoria and depicts the diversity of subject matter that abounds through out the regional country side from the dry barren areas of western New South Wales to the High country of Southern and north east Victoria.

Much of this current work depicts the harshness of the prevailing landscape as a permanent reminder and record of the days gone by.