The World Today is a project comissioned by Obscura.io in 2022, where hundred of photographers took a photographic time capsule around the world, creating a simultaneous body of work about their place in 6 weeks and 150 photographs. My part of the project was shot between March and April 2022 in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia.
Chichi is a queer trans Afro Latina spiritualist and DJ.
They ‘reclaim being Mesoamerican indigenous and west African through fashion that is written off as ghetto when worn in the white Australian landscape.’
Divinia and Nettle have been housemates and friends for a few years before starting to date two years ago. They live together with Ghost, Nettle’s dog. They are part of the Melbourne vivid punk scene. I first met Nettle in 2012 as she was busking in the street.
Sign found at Scarlett's house, Melbourne 2022
Aheda making falafel from scratch in her kitchen. Aheda is a chef and a refugee from Palestine. Because of the ongoing occupation of Palestine, her family is scattered around the globe. She dreams of opening a Palestinian food truck in Melbourne and works very hard to accomplish this.
Arrow is a non binary punk artist living with chronic illness. They just moved back to Melbourne.
Divinia and Nettle have been housemates and friends for a few years before starting to date two years ago. They live together with Ghost, Nettle’s dog.
Mariam is a musician and illustrator based in Melbourne
Milk bar were corner shops and a stop in people’s daily life in Melbourne, but they disappear because of gentrification and supermarkets competition.
Luigi and Nicole recently became fiancé after three years together. He’s a rapper and she’s a DJ and dancer. They just moved together in this house in Kingstown.
Xristi is a pagan artist who does all kind of divination including tarot and palm reading. She lives with her partner in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne.
Xristi is a pagan artist who does all kind of divination including tarot and palm reading.
Ali is from the south of Iran and sells all kinds of Persian food and items on Sydney Road. He speaks Persian, Arabic and English in the shop.
Every time I go there, he gives me a sour sweet.
Sydney Road is an extremely long Melbournian street that starts the journey towards Sydney, a solid 10h drive from there. This street is famous for its multicultural shops and restaurants brought by the different waves of migration to Melbourne. Vietnamese, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Iranian, Turks, Lebanese people make this part of the city vibrant with culture.
Sultan selling Lebanese sweets during ramadan. He works in the family business with his mother and twin brother.
Divinia is a punk originally from New Zealand. She lives in Melbourne with her girlfriend and their dog.
Nettle is a queer punk from Melbourne. She plays in multiple bands and is also a multidisciplinary artist, a street medic and a community organizer. She’s also invisibly disabled.
Bao and Lyndal in their front yard.
Xristi is a pagan artist who does all kind of divination including tarot and palm reading.
Polly is a Queer, Chilean-Syrian immigrant who is interested in hope, love and community care as a paradigm in which to move through their world.
Alda is a punk tattoo artist and illustrator from Bandung, Indonesia. She sings in the band Jalang in Melbourne.
Kin is a non binary person who works as a program manager for a Melbourne festival. Part of their cultural heritage is from Myanmar, which they are trying to learn more about and connect with.
Melbourne's alleyway system is where people's waste used to be collected before the creation of a sewage system.
Scarlett is a trans Aboriginal woman who grew up in Tasmania. She is a musician and sound engineer.
Pentridge, now a shopping mall with apartments, once was one of the most secured Australian prison from 1851 to 1997.
Debbie and Steven are playing with Ella while Ava is posing for the camera. Kids nowadays are used to being photographed by their parents and develop a sense of performance in front of the camera early on.
Chong Keng, a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor, at her office in Coburg
Young women going to a party in the city on a Saturday night
Frankie is a Singaporean film maker, photographer and potter who resides in Melbourne with his best friend and cat, Elvis.
Cut arm, swords and toilet paper.
Hamed and Mahnaz rushing to get everything ready for Nowruz dinner, the Persian new year that celebrates the return of Spring
Melbourne holds one of the largest diaspora of Greek community in the world.
Reflection room in a Vietnamese church, Collinwood.
Customers rushing to get the best price at the end of the market, Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Zackarie and his father at the TAB, a popular venue to drink and bet on horse racing that can be found all around town. They are mostly frequented by men.
Butcher girl in a shopping mall
Luigi and Nicole recently became fiancé after three years together. He’s a rapper and she’s a DJ and dancer. They just moved into this house together in West Melbourne.
