This is my latest edit from my project documenting 10 Murray Street Government Offices in Hobart. I have photographs and video spanning a 10 year period in which I photographed the building from every perceivable angle both exterior and interior. I enjoy opening up these folders and working on this long term project. Whilst the building has long gone my collection of photographs serve as a reminder of what once was and working on these photographs takes me back to moments in time working on this project. When I see each and every photograph from this decade long project I remember where I was and what I was feeling when pressing the shutter. I believe in making art with emotion and to create this emotional relationship with a place or building I need to spend lots of time observing it in different seasons, light and in the case of 10 Murray at the stages of its life from working offices right up until its demolition. Having bear witness to the interior spaces as they were being used as offices then to walk the empty corridors where on some levels all the fittings and furniture was still in place and then walk to another floor to see walls, carpets and interiors ripped apart in preparation for the buildings entire demolition was a powerful experience and guided my process of making photographs. I hadn't imagined how much of an impact working with a building for so long would have on me - bearing witness to and documenting its last days was akin to losing a friend. I remember originally thinking that I would just document the building as it was standing as that was my memory and that's how I wanted to remember it. But as time went on and I saw the demolition I knew it was just as important to document the process of its destruction as this provided another chapter of the buildings life, its ultimate death. Whilst I have shared some of my exterior photographs on my website project gallery I would one day like to have some kind of an exhibition and share here some of the interior spaces. Social media and online content is fleeting and gone tomorrow - to create a space dedicated to the documenting and process of capturing this important part of history through photographs and the moving image is a dream I have and hopefully this can happen one day. View the online gallery of edited photographs so far on my website www.tryanphotos.com/10-murray-street-tasmania-cover