I'm writing this from Castello Ceconi, around an hour and half north of Venice in the foothills of the Dolomites. In photography circles, it's known as the Graphistudio castle which hosts a range of photography workshop and seminars.

And now it is an international photography art gallery. Tony Hewitt and I were invited to create the inaugural exhibition for the Castello Ceconi Art Gallery, which in many ways is simply a change in direction and purpose. The castle itself was already set up with six gallery rooms, each with sensational lighting and a print hanging system in place.

If it sounds pretty cool to have an exhibition in an Italian castle, you're right! Tony and I are very proud to add this accolade to our CVs, even more so given we've sold some prints! And fingers crossed there will be a few more sales as the exhibition is open until the end of October 2026.

Our exhibition is titled No Place | No Time and features abstract aerials, as many readers might expect of us. All the work was printed and framed here in Italy by Graphistudio (no need to ship from Australia) using Canson Edition Etching Rag. My favourite Canson paper used to be Rag Photographique, but Tony put me onto Edition Etching a year or so ago and it has become my new favourite. It has a very fine texture with a clean white and the way pigment inks sit on the paper gives my colour palette a subtle tertiary cast - it slightly mutes the super saturated colours to give a more painterly rendition. Hard to explain, but the prints looked fantastic, if we don't say so ourselves.

The photographs were framed without glass so there is nothing between the viewer and the image and the inaugural opening also includes exhibitions from friends Kaye Davis and Steve Gosling, their work also printed by Graphistudio on Canson papers.

We've reproduced our exhibition in three books - a standard but beautifully printed photo book that you might purchase in a bookstore (remember book shops?), an album design which is based on the Middlehurst books we produce with our students annually, and a brand new 'The Edge' design created by Graphistudio. The Edge looks like a piece of sculpture with perfectly square edges and printed on all sides - including the edges. Then when you open it, there are no gutters and the photos can bleed across the entire page. Also hard to explain, fantastic to view.

Over the coming weeks I write a little more about the exhibition and the processes involved. In the meantime, if you happen to be in Europe, you know the most important exhibition to visit! A Google search will get you there!