These particular images were made between 2022 and 2024 and form part of an ongoing body of diaristic black-and-white photographs titled My Family and Other Animals. Henri Cartier-Bresson once described the camera as “a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” Made in Sydney, Australia, these photographs attend to the surrealness of everyday life—its coincidences, chance encounters, and strange, unplanned events. They reflect an impulse to find meaning in what surrounds us, whether through synchronicity or through the sense that life can exceed invention. As the familiar saying has it, “the truth is stranger than fiction”—or, in today’s parlance, “you couldn’t make this stuff up.”
