In December 2024, me and Hobart photographer Andrew Wilson did some trial portrait shoots with 5 of the participants from the 177...

The recent podcast episodes involved one that was 11 months in the making, and another came together in a matter of days. Two of them...

At the time of writing this, I have completed 108 interviews for the 177 Nations of Tasmania podcast. These have spanned a whole gamut of...

As I write this, we are well and truly into winter, but I have been going through the many folders of photos I accumulated through the...

A somewhat provocative heading perhaps, but then 2 of the recent episodes have involved Bosnia Herzegovina and Bhutan. In both countries,...

Things have been a little slow with the podcast in the past few months, but should be picking up a bit more over the next month with some...

Having reached 100 episodes/nationalities on the podcast, I thought it was a milestone worth celebrating and I invited participants to...

Whenever a new year starts, it's common to look back at the previous year and reflect on what you may have learnt and achieved. With an...

The two latest episodes on the podcast come from Scotland and Latvia. Both from Northern Europe, but two very different stories in both...

One of the beauties of doing this podcast is the diversity of stories and cultures I get to hear about from quite disparate parts of the...

I've done another three new episodes in quick succession, all from Europe, but from quite disparate parts. After a succession of...

The last few months have been pretty productive and yielded some interesting interviews from both similar and contrasting parts of the...

The podcast has been going for almost 3 years now and I thought it was a good time to sit back and both review what I've achieved so far...

It's always interesting to look back on what you've achieved during the year, and when I look at the gallery of photos of just some of...

In the process of doing the interviews for this podcast, more and more common themes have emerged. There are certain things that are...

I thought it would be interesting to have Anthony on the podcast because of his rather unusual reason for coming to Tasmania and his...

As any of you who follow my podcast will know, I frequently ask my subjects about their childhood and upbringing. This is the time of...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a big country, the second-largest in Africa, and also one of the most populous. It's also rich in...

To see some, the connection between these three things may seem unclear, but there will be others who will probably relate straight away....

Some of you may have seen my blog about A Piano of Tasmania in 2020, and how it blew up into a story on national TV. It really all...