Amy Feldtmann

Photography, words & the world beyond my postcode.

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Gallery
  • About
  • Contact

Photos: Patti and Robert by Judy Linn

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Before Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith were a famous photographer and punk-poet, they were residents at the Chelsea Hotel, making a living and a life however they could to support […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Photos: NGV Triennial; belated

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial exhibition ended a month ago, in March. It is never to late to look back on an exhibition. It was big, it was rich, […]

Read Article →
Interesting, My own, Photography

Robert Mapplethorpe: look at the women

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

It wasn’t a leatherman, a naked man, or a man in a polyester suit that was the subject Robert Mapplethorpe’s first photograph — it was his oldest sister Nancy posing elegantly outside […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others, Thoughts & views

Photos: Winter weekend in Tasmania

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

A July Winter weekend in northern Tasmania, with time in Launceston and Evandale.          

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Photos: NYC in black and white

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Black and white photographs I took in the New York Summer of 2013. The city is an assault on the senses — bringing it back to black and white quietens, […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography, Travel, United States

Photos: Springtime in St Kilda

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Photographs taken on a Spring Sunday in St Kilda, Melbourne.        

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Look back at David Hockney at NGV

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

I came across these photos on the weekend; photos taken at the ‘Current’ exhibition at NGV of David Hockney’s work. David Hockney is now 79 years old, and although his […]

Read Article →
Interesting

Essay: ‘A home among the peach trees’

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 4 Comments

I recently wrote an essay, ‘A home among the peach trees’ about refugee settlement in regional Australia and I wrote it for two reasons. One was because while I care […]

Read Article →
Thoughts & views

Photos: Another Launceston weekend

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 4 Comments

It was a weekend in Launceston, Tasmania, with friends, although the main adventures took place in the surrounds. For some reason I kept seeing scenes and subjects that reminded me of […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Photos: Erwin Blumenfeld

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

German photographer Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) is consider one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, with work including black and white portraits and nudes, celebrity portraiture, advertising campaigns […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Georgia O’Keeffe, born on this day

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Today is the birthday of Georgia O’Keeffe. She was born on a Wisconsin dairy farm in the U.S. in 1887, and died in 1986. The U.K. Guardian described her as, […]

Read Article →
Interesting

Photos: Robert Frank – The Americans

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Robert Frank is considered to be the most influential living photographer in the world. This Swiss-born American artist documented lie and cultures including the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Photos: By Harold Cazneaux

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 3 Comments

Harold Cazneaux was an Australian photographer who lived from 1878-1953. After a moved from New Zealand to Adelaide as child, Cazenaux moved to Sydney in his 20s. His photography started out as a […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Photos: World of windows

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

Architecture across countries is always interesting, and the details, such as windows, often tell a story.                    

Read Article →
My own, Photography
Bergen to Oslo train, Norway

Photos: Norway by railway

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

Each day, a few times a day, trains depart from Bergen heading to Oslo, and Oslo heading to Bergen, on what is said to be one of the most scenic […]

Read Article →
Europe, My own, Photography, Travel
Tate Modern, London (August 2016). By Amy Feldtmann

Photos: Art houses

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

Art galleries and museums themselves can be subjects of art, and why not. In fact, they are probably some of the most interesting buildings, and places to people watch, in […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Photo project: May Winter Appear

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

In 2011 I did a photography project through the website Flickr called the ‘365 Project‘ where I had to take and share a photo a day for 365 days. My […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Nizwa afternoon

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

There were meant to be 700,000 locals in Nizwa, and I couldn’t see even one of them. Now I knew what it felt like being in a ghost town. A town where the […]

Read Article →
Middle East & Africa, Travel

Not so ordinary: Lucasz Dziadkiewicz

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

Illustrator. Award-winner. Making the world more interesting.  Lucasz Dziadkiewicz is a man of many creative talents, comfortable with brushes, a camera or guitar in hand. He also recently won the Melbourne Lord […]

Read Article →
Not so ordinary

Photos: March Magnolias

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

While Australia reluctantly eases into Autumn (have you seen the temperatures?), the northern hemisphere is entering Spring. In the media, especially on social media, I keep seeing excitement of lambs […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Photos: 200 years of fashion

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

The National Gallery of Victoria ‘Australia’ location at Federation Square in Melbourne currently has a ‘200 Years of Australian Fashion‘ exhibition on. It is beautiful, and a bit of fun. […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Photos: Most memorable of 2015

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

From a shortlist of 134 photos, these are the 50 photos that I think are the most memorable from 2015. They aren’t necessarily the most well known or the most beautiful […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Harvest15

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

The 2015 harvest is in swing on farms right across Australia, and these are the photos my brother Tim has taken while out amongst the crops in North East Victoria, Australia. […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Photos: Six voyages

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

The New York Times produces some of the best photography-based stories in the world, and their recent ‘Voyages’ feature is no exception. Six photographers, documenting their journey to six different […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Photos: The long journey

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Photographer Patrick Witty has been in Hungary and Croatia covering the movement of refugees in Europe, and here are some of the images he has shared. Photographs taken between 10 […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

The relationship between goats and Argan oil

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

Let’s start with this fantastic video of Argan goats in a tree in Marrakech in Morocco (with thanks to the Modern Farmer enewsletter). Argan goats are named so because they […]

Read Article →
Interesting

The High Line Field Guide page 34 girl

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Like many, New York City is one of my favourites cities in the world, and my favourite place in that huge concrete jungle is the High Line. So I am […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography

They can’t be refugees, they have Smartphones!

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Imagine you had to flee your home, and flee your country, because your country was a war zone, and you wanted safety for yourself and family. What items would you […]

Read Article →
Interesting

MFW panel: ‘The Influence of ISIS’

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago I went to a Melbourne Writers festival event called ‘The Influence of ISIS‘. It was presented by the Fifth Estate, the journalism-focussed series hosted by […]

Read Article →
Interesting

Fancy* diagrams and tables about refugees

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

There has been a lot said about refugees in Europe and Australia in the past week (well, more than usual), and rightly so. There are more refugees in the world […]

Read Article →
Interesting

Not so ordinary: Sally Davis

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Straight talker. Community leader. Woman of words. Sally Davis’s career has seen her add journalist, airline PR, university lecturer, mayor and health-book author to her CV. You have an interesting […]

Read Article →
Not so ordinary

Talking Twitterati on radio 17/4/2015

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Last night I was on the ABC Radio National ‘Twitterati’ segment to discuss notable topics that were discussed on Twitter during the week. The interview covered Hillary Clinton, the Woolworths ‘Fresh in […]

Read Article →
Work

A world of travel stories

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

I’ve written about both Maptia and Morocco on this site before, and now I have written about Morocco on the Maptia website itself. My story called ‘Do not skip Fez’ […]

Read Article →
Middle East & Africa, Travel, Work

What I’ve learned about contracting (so far)

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

I have worked as a freelance agency contractor in the communications profession since late 2008. Except for the 18 months working in the UK where it was a requirement of […]

Read Article →
Work
Beni Isguen, Ghardaïa, 47000, Algeria

Photos: Urbanistan

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

‘UrbaniStan’ by Matjaz Krivic is a collection of some of the most incredible photos from around the world you will see. The photography project is described as follows: “UrbaniStan is […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

One Perfect Day in Muscat

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Wanderbug:
Today’s guide to Oman comes from Australian communications expert, photographer & savvy traveller, Amy Feldtmann. You can read Amy’s take on the world around her and…

Read Article →
Middle East & Africa, Travel

Instagram Sweet Treats

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Follow these Instagram accounts for as much sugar as your eyes can handle, as I do: Nectar & Stone If you love cakes, chocolate and artistry, you will love the work […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

World Press Photo of the Year

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

World Press Photo of the Year, Contemporary Issue, 1st prize singles, Mads Nissen, Denmark. ‘Jon and Alex’, was taken on 18 May 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Jon, 21, and […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Gaza kids in Arab’s Got Talent

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

This is a short video, from the BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ programme, that tells a great story: music talent, war, teenage flirting, young feminism, travel, fame, and is a bit of a […]

Read Article →
Interesting

Photos: Timeline of #FreeAJStaff

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

From 29 December 2013 to today, a pictorial timeline of the case of three Al Jazeera journalists locked up in Egypt for doing their job: Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and […]

Read Article →
Photography, The work of others

Sheedarton?

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

“Ms Sheed received an applause and shouts of support when she said she would be proud if she changed the seat of Shepparton after 47 years” – via Shepparton News Twitter […]

Read Article →
Thoughts & views

Koala diplomacy (and positive PR)

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

The G20 political summit today wraps up in Brisbane, Australia, and more than the official ‘family photo’ or the awkward meet-and-greet handshakes, a photo opportunity for leaders to ‘cuddle a koala’ […]

Read Article →
Work

Photos: Snaps to Spring St 2014

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

This is a round-up of the 2014 Victorian State Government election campaign in photos, starting from the day writs were issued on 3 November. Images are sourced from mainstream media […]

Read Article →
Photography

Photos: Tokyo time

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Some photos taken during five days in Tokyo. More can be seen on Flickr.  

Read Article →
Asia, My own, Photography, Travel

Photos: Launceston weekend

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

Photos from a weekend in Launceston in July this year; and a few of Evandale too. More on Flickr (see link below). More photos can be seen on my Flickr page, […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Lemons, and Tariku, and bears

Featuredby Amy Feldtmann 1 Comment

This weekend I am in Launceston, visiting a friend. After a morning walking to the market, and buying lots of delicious things, we thought it was time to sit down and […]

Read Article →
Interesting

Photo: Under the fig tree

4 May, 2018by Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

  From the speakerscorner.org.au website: “Every Sunday, from 2pm until 5pm, people gather in Sydney’s beautiful Domain park to discuss matters. The ones standing on ladders are ‘the speakers’, and […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography
Christian Dior fashion dresses

Photos: Dior in Melbourne

15 October, 2017by Amy Feldtmann Leave a comment

To celebrate 70 years of the House of Dior, Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria is currently exhibiting The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture. This exclusive exhibition includes more […]

Read Article →
My own, Photography

Post navigation

1 2 … 35 Next →
  • Photography
    • The work of others
  • Writing
    • Travel writing
      • Asia
      • Australia
      • Europe
      • Middle East & Africa
      • United States
      • My five favourite things
    • Interesting things
    • Thoughts & ideas
    • Communications and professional work
  • ‘Not so ordinary’ interviews

Recent Posts

  • Photos: Patti and Robert by Judy Linn
  • Photo: Under the fig tree
  • Photos: NGV Triennial; belated
  • Robert Mapplethorpe: look at the women
  • Photos: Dior in Melbourne

Search

Pages

  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Gallery
  • Home
  • Words

Categories

  • Photography
    • The work of others
  • Writing
    • Travel writing
      • Asia
      • Australia
      • Europe
      • Middle East & Africa
      • United States
      • My five favourite things
    • Interesting things
    • Thoughts & ideas
    • Communications and professional work
  • ‘Not so ordinary’ interviews

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 158 other followers

Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy