More Fuel for Allison

Pennsylvania, 2006


Brooklyn, 2006


Brooklyn, 2006

Australian writer and poet Allison Browning and I began our correspondence a year ago when I discovered my White Horse on her blog accompanying her poem, Small Gods. We quickly became overseas pen pals, sharing our experiences and intimate thoughts on love, relationships in their various manifestations, writing, soul-searching, and art-making.

Allison's poetry is inspired by images from photographers around the world, and in time, more of my own photographs appeared on her blog along with her poems: Fuel, Two Little, and Quickstep. I was thrilled for Allison that Fuel was selected for The Best Australian Poems 2010.

David Andrew Frey and I invited Allison to curate a Culturehall Feature Issue based on Australian photographers, and in September 2010, she contributed a beautiful essay, OUT BACK.

In honor of our year as kindred spirits and confidants, I've searched my contact sheets for old images with open spaces for Allison to find words. Thank you, Allison, for an inspiring friendship.

culturehall feature 52: OUT BACK

Thank you to Melbourne-based writer, Allison Browning, for culturehall's Feature Issue 52: OUT BACK highlighting four photographers whose work examine the land and communities of rural Australia. Featured artists are: Renee Nowytarger, Donna Bailey, Karl E Scullin, and Dean Sewell.

Congratulations also to Allison, whose poem, Fuel, will be included in the Best Australian Poetry Anthology 2010.

Please find more of Allison's writing and the images she curates on her blog: JEMIMA IS NOT MY NAME