My project photographing the rapid built changes occurring throughout Melbourne I take the time to photograph the often overlooked spaces and places of the city. The big changes are obvious, huge skyscrapers and massive demolitions, but it’s the everyday suburban scenes such as this one that fascinate me and draw me to make photographs. I photographed these four 19th Century cottages over many years, getting to know them like a good friend. This capture was at immanent demolition. I am drawn to hoarding on demolitions, I think it’s a visual metaphor for the final moments of life of these homes. I like how the hoarding obscures and almost like its smothering any feeling of what were once homes. I always find it emotional and thought provoking how lives are lived in these homes for well over 100 years, and in a matter of days it’s as if they never existed, only the photograph remains as a reminder of this everyday yet radical change. View my Cremorne project gallery