Roadside, a sub-theme in the Fleurieuscapes project, is informed by, and takes its bearings, from Joyce Evans intriguing 2013 body of work entitled Edge of the Road. The latter appears to have been forgotten in our photographic culture ---- sucked into its black hole.
Roadside emerges from walking the unsealed back country roads in Waitpinga, usually on poodlewalks, and it is concerned with both the state of side of the road, the road itself and the flux of the roadside.
The picture of illegal dumping of carp by local fishermen on Depledge Rd in Waitpinga was made on an early morning poodlewalk. The carp is slowly rotting on the side of the road. Not even the local foxes, who clean up all the dead bodies in the bushland, will eat the carp. Carp makes the standard poodles sick if they eat it.
So much for the assertion that recreational fishermen are in tune with, and respect, nature.