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Our www.wotwedid.com blog reached the milestone of 1000,000 views last week. It has had 56,000 visitors who have had the opportunity to view 380 posts and read around 250K words and see the hundreds of photographs that we have made to compliment the stories.

 

Our wotwedid Blog was started nine years ago as an opportunity to connect with our friends and creative communities via social media. The topic cloud for the wotwedid Blog includes ARTISTS’ BOOKS, PHOTBOOKS, CAMERA OBSCURA, EXHIBITIONS, MEETING PEOPLE, THE ART AND PRACTICE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, REGIONAL ARTS, CYANOTYPES, PLACE PROJECTS and POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH.

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Usually the content that we post is generated by us and includes the written commentaries, the photographs and illustrations – it can be quite a lengthy time consuming task to get a blog up.

While many posts relate to what we do, have done or will be doing, the Blog represents a chronology of activity in our art practice, our lives and issues that we are concerned about. Due to the contemporary space that the arts and artists occupy today much activity and many events go unnoticed and unrecorded. So a significant driver is to provide a space for commentary on what is happening outside of the popularist ‘art bubble’.

Early this year we were excited to learn that the State Library of Queensland had nominated wotwedid.com for inclusion in the Pandora Archive managed by the National Library of Australia, ‘to ensure the collection and long-term preservation of online publications relating to Australia and Australians. This objective contributes to the Library’s statutory function to comprehensively collect Australia’s documentary heritage.’

Over the years we have found that many views, screen dumps and downloads of resources we make available take place anonymously without comment or feedback. Then again, we understand that this is the same for most online resources. Despite this we find that as we travel and meet friends, fellow artists, academics and curators many say how much they appreciate and enjoy the content that we generate and post.

So, a BIG Thank You to all have visited … And we look forward to your return to help take www.wotwedid.com to the next milestone – 200,000K views.

D+V with masks

Vicky+Doug

PORTRAIT PHOTO: Susan Belperio

Here are some images of people met, events documented and our own art activities over recent years …

2017 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair

Wim de Vos presenting at ABBE Artists Book Conference 2017 at the Queensland College of Art

Siganto Seminar and Artists’ Book Fair – June 20+21, 2015

ABBE Artists Book Fair 2015 l-r Christene Drewe+Helen Cole+Diedrie Brollo

All you can eat – Nocturne Bundaberg

Farm produce store: Nocturne Miles

Hilary Wardhough + Mel Anderson PHOTO: Supplied

Martin Parr and Doug Spowart reviewing Australian and New Zealand photobooks at the State Library of Victoria for consideration to be included in the Tate submission. January 2018.

Some Antipodean Photobooks from the Tate project PHOTOCOLLAGE: Doug Spowart

Peter Lyssiotis’ book “What the moon let me see’

2015 – EXHIBITED: ‘Books by Artists’, The Webb Gallery as part of the Artists Book Brisbane Event

Joe Ruckli’s exhibition ‘Lightning without flash’ at QCA

Teun van der Heidjen workshop @ PSC

Justine Ellis & Dan Rule – Perimeter Books

Maris Rusis & Doug at his Foto Frenzy exhibition

Juno Gemes at Fireworks Gallery Brisbane

Ian Poole at Foto Frenzy

Peter Lyssiotis in his studio

Helen Frajman of M.33 at the Volume Art Book Fair

Andrew Chapman

Lou Gilbert

Gerrit Fokkema & Libby Jeffery

Sonya Payes

Harvey Benge at Photobook New Zealand 2016

Meg Hewitt at Volume Art Book Fair

Des Cowley+Cartier-Bresson’s Book_1936

BIFB Photobook Panelist: David Wadelton PHOTO: Doug Spowart

BIFB Photobook Panelist: Patrick Pound PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Doug introduces the BIFB Photobook panel PHOTO: Victoria Cooper

Anita Totha – Remote Photobooks NZ

With BIFB Creative Director Fiona Sweet

Rephotography project for Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery: Don Featherstone ‘Golden Tree’ 1959 – Spowart+Cooper Corner of Kitchener & Herries Streets 1996

‘Under the southern sun’ cyanotype exhibition at The Maud Street Photo Gallery PHOTO: Gail Newmann

Gail Neumann hanging the ‘Under the southern sun’ cyanotype exhibition at The Maud Street Photo Gallery

‘Under the southern sun’ installation at The Maud Street Photo Gallery

Beata Batorowicz + Doug judging the Somerset Art Award 2019 Photo: Victoria Cooper

Tilley Wood artist PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Doug presenting a workshop at New England Art Gallery & Museum Armidale

Martin Parr looking at ANZ photobooks – Vienna Photobook Festival 2017 PHOTO Lachlan Blair

Doug sorting through book boxes

’10 starfish that are an invasive species with 8 bones of a Tasmanian wallaby’ by Victoria Cooper

EXPO88 Nocturne Zebra Photo by Y. Regami (a.k.a. Doug Spowart)

British Library buys ‘Australian Banquet, January 25/ 26, 1788’

At The Unconformity, Queenstown 2018

At The Unconformity, Queenstown 2018

Meeting with Marc Pricop at The Unconformity, Queenstown 2018

Meeting with Raymond Arnold at The Unconformity, Queenstown 2018

Beginning the porthole blackout of the camera obscura on the Spirit of Tasmania ferry

Spirit of Tasmania ferry Camera obscura: a 3-5 metre wave crashes against our porthole

Imagery Gallery – my mother and business partner Ruby and I

Victoria Cooper, Ian Strange, Helen Cole, Damien Eckersley

Frank Corley circa 1994 Photo: Doug Spowart

A portrait of Wim de Vos at Studio West End. Photo: Doug Spowart

Wim de Vos’ sketchbook of the Mackay Artspace’ Focus on Artists Books conference

Adele in the New West End Studio

Thomas Oliver portrait shoot

At the Monash Gallery of Art at the opening of the cyanotype exhibition ‘In Anna’s Garden’

With Elysha Rei completing our collaborative C.R.A.P. Artists Survey book

A page from Doug’s flipbook Narcissus meets himself on the way to Bunadanon

Bundanon residency Writer’s Cottage dichotomy: a projection

Bundanon residency Vicky’s a page from the ‘River’ book

A page from the cyanotype artists book ‘Tidal’ a finalist in the Libris Artists Book Awards

Pinhole portrait of Ian Poole 1993

Ian Poole, Glen, Ruby, Asai, Ben and Doug at the opening of Floating

Participants in the video by Doug Spowart – Photography, 5 years from now

Team Foto Frenzy – an Impossible Project 10×8 Polaroid by Doug Spowart – RHS Ian photographs Doug

Doug Spowart and Ian Poole with the poster for Shot from down under

Vicky and the BLUE NOTEBOOK YEARBOOK

Caren Florance at the ABBE Conference Photo: Doug Spowart from ABBE Artists Book Conference 2017

Brad Freeman at the ABBE Conference Photo: Doug Spowart from ABBE Artists Book Conference 2017

Doug with his cyanotype book at the Skopelos Greece workshop Photo Victoria Cooper

Steph Bolt with some of her full sheet prints at the Skopelos Workshop Photo Doug Spowart

Regina Maria Anzenberger and Doug Spowart at the Vienna Photobook Festival PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Natalia Baluta (Russian Self-Pub) at the Vienna Photobook Festival PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Gerry Badger in review with us at the Vienna Photobook Festival PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Yiny And comment in a lucture by Doug Spowart

Doug with his cyanotype transparency at the Skopelos Greece workshop

Sandy Barrie and a lost treasure

APOTY Patron Libby Jeffery discusses the 2017 APOTY PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Daniel Boetker-Smith and Peter Lyssiotis share a conversation

The crown spilled out into the street 2017 APOTY Awards

Gracia and Louise at the Festival of the Photocopier Melbourne 2017

Nocturne Castlemaine: Pyrenees Highway and moon rise, Chewton

Nocturne Castlemaine: Post Office – Telstra telephones PHOTO: Cooper+Spowart ©2017

Wooli Beach Junk a cyanotype by Doug Spowart

Super Nova a cyanotype artists’ book by Victoria Cooper

PHOTO: Steph Bolt Cyanotype: Cooper+Spowart

Nocturne Castlemaine: Chewton Post Office Duo PHOTO: Cooper+Spowart

Signing our Field Studies 2016 contribution

Thomas Oliver and Doug

With David Tickell on the day of his gift to me in 2013

Nocturne Armidale images in tthe council chambers with Neil Burton Photo: Lindy Burton

Nocturne Armidale group Photo: Neil Burton

Nocturne Armidale: Zebra crossing – Beardy Mall PHOTO: Cooper+Spowart

The Maud camera obscura team – Louis Lim, Doug+Vicky with Maud Director Irena Prikryl. PHOTO: Louis Lim

Sandy Barrie demonstrates ancient portable daylight enlargers – the oldest was made before 1859.

Louis Lim bought Ana Paula’s book

Orpheus Photo Workshop: A Photoshop power session with Les

Processing 120 film with Irena Prykril in the Maud Street Photo Gallery Darkroom

Nocturne Armidale workshop at NERAM

Nocturne Miles: A group shot of the photographers

Doug Spowart: researcher in the Repository of the State Library of Queensland

Ana Paula Estrada with Gillian Jones at the launch of ‘Memorandum’

Les Walkling’s Colorspace portrait – Orpheus Island 2005 PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Doug with one of his ICONS & REVERED AUSTRALIANA prints

SLQ Siganto Research Fellow Victoria Cooper

The CarCamera Obscura folio was a finalist in the LEICA CCP Photodocumentary Awards

Renata Buziak and Victoria at the opening of Buziak’s ‘Medicinal Plant Cycles’

Dr Victoria Cooper opens Renata Buziak’s ‘Medicinal Plant Cycles’

Doug doing a show ‘n’ tell with examples of their handmade photobooks

A page from the journal PHOTO.Graphy published by Doug Spowart

With Terri Ducheck Irena Prikryl and Gillian Jones the exhibition ‘In Situ’ at Maud Gallery

The artists’ dinner @ Maud Gallery

Louise Martin-Chew opens the exhibition ‘In Situ’ at Maud Gallery PHOTO: Irena Prikryl

Jo-Anne Driessens – “Up Close” @ Fireworks Gallery PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Michael Aird, Juno Jemes and Joanne Driessens @ Fireworks Gallery PHOTO: Victoria Cooper

“Up Close” Artist Talk chaired by Doug Spowart PHOTO: Victoria Cooper

The CarCamera on the Barkly Tableands during the transcontinental crossing

A CarCamera obscura image on the Barkly Tableands during the transcontinental crossing

The Sentinel, Mt Buffalo a zoneplate pinhole by Doug Spowart

Doug’s Graflex 4×5 fitted with a zone plate

Vicky’s shortbread biscuit tin 6x17cm panorama roll film

A bikkie tin pinhole of Myall Park Botanic Gardens – from the exhibition Natural Encounter

Pinhole 4×5 Chrome film exposed in a film box by Victoria Cooper

Lost City zoneplate by Doug Spowart

Silvi Glattauer at Baldessin Press Studio PHOTO: Doug Spowart

William Kelly with Nicola Stairmand at Baldessin Press Studio SLV Creative Fellowship Residency announcement event Spetember 27, 2015 PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Sandy Barrie and the Art Union journal featuring a Henry Fox Talbot print Photo: Doug Spowart

World Photobook Day Forum at Maud Street Photo Gallery PHOTO: Daniel Groneberg

Libby Jeffery MomentoPro after a long day at Volume Art Book Fair Sydney

Bella Capezio making Insta Photobooks for APPA at the Volume Art Book Fair

John Ogden Cyclops Press at Volume Artbook Fair Sydney PHOTO: Doug Spowart

A David Williams portrait of Doug at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Adele Outteridge + Wim de Vos – Photo from ABBE Artists Book Conference 2015 by Doug Spowart

Doug Spowart reading a book at the SLQ

Doug Spowart with the La Trobe journal that features one of his papers on photobooks PHOTO: Victoria Cooper

Out at night shooting images for the Nocturne Muswellbrook project

Nocturne Musswellbrook exhibition opening with the Gallery team

Nocturne Musswellbrook exhibition opening

Photobook Melbourne: Peter Lyssiotis looking at an Aperture Books

Des Cowley talks the ‘OTHER’ Photobook Forum at the Photobook Melbourne event

The judging team for the Australian Photobook of the Year Award PHOTO: Doug Spowart

Vicky and Doug photographing for the Toowoomba Art Society’s ‘Waterways project’

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