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Photography project update; ABC story; New nationalities coming out of the woodwork
Portrait sessions in the Hobart Library The photography sessions have been a little sparser this time around, but they have been...
Mark Thomson
5 days ago2 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania Photography and Storytelling Exhibition at the Hobart Library
We set up the photo display on Level 2 of the Hobart library back in March, but it's taken a bit of time to get rolling again with the...
Mark Thomson
May 282 min read
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The 177 Nations of Tasmania Photography and Storytelling Exhibition has begun !
We have now completed the first week of running the pop-up studio in the Packing Room Gallery, in the Henry Jones Art Hotel , so I...
Mark Thomson
Feb 102 min read
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Meet the first participants in the 177 Nations of Tasmania photography and storytelling project
In December 2024, me and Hobart photographer Andrew Wilson did some trial portrait shoots with 5 of the participants from the 177...
Mark Thomson
Jan 172 min read
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Podcast highlights for June : Benin, Tunisia and Israel
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...
Mark Thomson
Jun 27, 20243 min read
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Refugee Week and sharing refugee stories. Some thoughts.
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...
Mark Thomson
Jun 19, 20242 min read
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Autumn colours along the Hobart Rivulet walk
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...
Mark Thomson
Jun 18, 20241 min read
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Podcast highlights for May - Escaping ethnic cleansing and surprising romances
A somewhat provocative heading perhaps, but then 2 of the recent episodes have involved Bosnia Herzegovina and Bhutan. In both countries,...
Mark Thomson
May 15, 20243 min read
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Podcast highlights - Armenian farming blueberries on King Island and professional volleyball in Estonia
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...
Mark Thomson
May 1, 20242 min read
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Celebrating 100 episodes of 177 Nations of Tasmania
Having reached 100 episodes/nationalities on the podcast, I thought it was a milestone worth celebrating and I invited participants to...
Mark Thomson
Mar 19, 20242 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - 2023 in review and future goals
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...
Mark Thomson
Jan 15, 20243 min read
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Podcast highlights - Scottish salmon farmer and Latvian choral singing
The two latest episodes on the podcast come from Scotland and Latvia. Both from Northern Europe, but two very different stories in both...
Mark Thomson
Dec 14, 20232 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - From Sweden to the heart of Africa
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...
Mark Thomson
Oct 26, 20232 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania Highlights : Stories of romance and travel adventures
I've done another three new episodes in quick succession, all from Europe, but from quite disparate parts. After a succession of...
Mark Thomson
Sep 11, 20232 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Recent highlights
The last few months have been pretty productive and yielded some interesting interviews from both similar and contrasting parts of the...
Mark Thomson
Aug 31, 20233 min read
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Almost 3 years of the 177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Time for a review and an appeal for help
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...
Mark Thomson
May 30, 20233 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania podcast in 2022 - looking back at the achievements and challenges
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...
Mark Thomson
Dec 31, 20225 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Compiling clips on common themes
In the process of doing the interviews for this podcast, more and more common themes have emerged. There are certain things that are...
Mark Thomson
Jun 29, 20224 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 60 - In between Hong Kong and Tasmanian culture
I thought it would be interesting to have Anthony on the podcast because of his rather unusual reason for coming to Tasmania and his...
Mark Thomson
Jun 16, 20222 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 56 - Traditional village life in Portugal
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...
Mark Thomson
Apr 25, 20222 min read
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