This collection includes both finished series and works in progress - images from intentional photographic series alongside quieter, more instinctive moments. While much of my work is rooted in focused themes and long-form bodies of work, I also embrace fluid photography, responding to the world as I move through it.
Grounded in my connection to Newdegate and the wider rural landscapes of Western Australia, I am drawn to overlooked and weathered places, abandoned sites and environments marked by human presence and time.
Working primarily with 35mm film and alternative processes like cyanotype, I engage slowly and thoughtfully with these spaces. Through my photography, I seek to record traces, hold memory, and create room for quiet reflection.
Us.
‘US” is a celebration of the women whose strength, resilience, and love keep the heart of our families, businesses, and rural communities alive. Through the photographs and stories of nine women, you’ll find reflections of all of the women in our lives. Us is the story of your neighbour, your sister, your daughter, your mum – and of you.
In this series, Davina Hams engages in candid conversations with the women of Newdegate, uncovering narratives that reveal their challenges and triumphs. These stories honour achievements both great and small, offering an intimate glimpse into the realities of life as a woman in regional Western Australia.
Greta Wolzak works with digital and 35mm film photography, weaving together imagery that captures lives with honesty and care. Her practice extends into textile-based art, where techniques such as cyanotype transform fabric into image, blending the visual language of photography with the tactile presence of hand-crafted work.
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Summer, Salt.
Currently in progress.
In order to heal, I had to go backwards, back to the beginning, to the spaces where time stands still.
I searched for the colours and patterns woven into nostalgia, tracing them like threads through memory. Some were vivid, untouched by time. Others had softened, blurred at the edges.
How far had they faded? Had distance reshaped them, or had I?
Standing in these places again, I wondered, does returning bring me closer to the truth, or only to the story I want to remember?
This work is a reflection of that search. A quiet exploration of the past, the way it lingers, and the way it changes when we look back.
The Last Trial
These photographs were taken at the Newdegate Research Station in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt. Once a hub for agricultural research on poor soils, the land now serves as a community crop.
But the station’s homes lie abandoned - quiet remnants of a past era. Through these images, I explore the contrast between land still in use and the domestic spaces left to decay.
It’s a reflection on progress, abandonment, and the traces people leave behind
These photographs were taken at the Newdegate Research Station in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt. Once a hub for agricultural research on poor soils, the land now serves as a community crop.
But the station’s homes lie abandoned - quiet remnants of a past era. Through these images, I explore the contrast between land still in use and the domestic spaces left to decay.
It’s a reflection on progress, abandonment, and the traces people leave behind.
Fading Grace
In Fading Grace, I wanted to capture the beauty of the Oratorio di Santa Cita in Palermo, Sicily. The photograph highlights a delicate chandelier amid the fading grandeur of the church, which has endured centuries of history, conflict, and change. The ornate details of the ceiling and walls, once symbols of Baroque splendor, now show signs of age. This image reflects the resilience of beauty within decay, where the remnants of the past quietly remind us of both endurance and the fragility of time.
Fading Grace was featured at the Perth Centre of Photography 2024 Collective Exhibition. Shot on Kodak Gold 35mm Film. Developed and scanned by Silver Halide Studios.
Rolling In
'Are the clouds rolling in? Is the sun being chased by the milky white?
She sighs, another day lost. Another day mourned.'
A self portrait of portraying the struggle with infertility, slowly loosing my womanhood and my identity.
Finalist in the 2023 Iris Award - Perth Centre of Photography
Echoes on the Line
In the midst of a hazy midday, I witnessed the shadows, dancing in harmony with a sunburnt kiss.
The sea transformed into a radiant blinding light, as if ignited by a celestial fire.
There, above the shimmering waves, a symphony of colours - yellow, blue, and red - simple vibrations weaving together in a perfect melody.
Lingering in the air like a cherished memory.
