The Emporium was...
a project of mine, Andrew Fildes, a former general and commercial photographer and also a writer, technical journalist and teacher. I was well known as a feature and review writer for the Australian Photography website and for the associated magazines 'Digital Photography and Design' and ‘Australian Photography’, the most respected photographic magazine in Australia – but I also wrote educational materials for film and television programs, advertising copy and for my own pleasure, poetry and creative prose. I taught Philosophy, Photography, Environmental Science, Politics, History and English over the last forty years. I'll even rewrite your website for you if you need a writer. (and oh so many of you do, really!) My two gifts were the ability to write and to take a decent photograph. Trouble is that unlike drawing, for instance, everyone thinks thatey they can do those things. And they are wrong but they don't think they should pay much for them!
Now I'm too frail to run a retal outlet and there was no-one prepared or able to take over. So I've closed it all down. As the years pass there are new projects and services I'd like to get under way but given that my general health has deteriorated, some of those will have to be co-operative endeavours. What do you have in mind? :).
In essence, I accidentally became a major resource for the retro-photographer, camera collector, photographic decor enthusiast and so on. Some of that has gone but I'm still here and it's only my legs that have collapsed, not my brain. Walking around has become problematic but I'm lethal on a scooter.
