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Project

Urban Typographies

A photographic series exploring the visual language of cities through signage, architecture, and the traces people leave behind.

Photography

Year
2024
Role
Photographer & Editor
Medium
Digital Photography
Context
Personal project developed over six months across Melbourne and Sydney.
Urban Typographies
photographyurbandocumentary
Close-up of faded hand-painted shop sign
Fitzroy laneway detail

In the laneways of Fitzroy I found an entire vocabulary of commercial desire — hairdressers, printers, tailors — each announcing themselves in a style that reflects a decade and a sensibility. The fonts are accidental archives.

Newtown wall with layered posters and stickers
King Street, Newtown, April 2024

Sydney's Newtown tells a different story — bolder graphics, more layers, a density of stickers and paste-ups that reads almost like a timeline of subcultural movements.

Melbourne CBD skyline
Melbourne CBD
Fitzroy laneway
Fitzroy laneway
Newtown street art
King Street, Newtown
Urban architecture detail
Surry Hills
City at dusk
City at dusk
Street-level perspective
Street level