News

October: I've tweaked the code a bit so that hopefully the site should give you a more appropriately sized picture, especially if you're viewing this on a widescreen monitor (before a few people had been complaining that the pictures were too small). Let me know if you come across any rough edges since the change (this is not an excuse to gloat about your enormous monitor — I miss first-world computing too much already).

August: A wedding in Honiara.

July: Western Province of Solomon Islands.

June: Some pictures from a visit to Pentecost to watch the land-diving ceremony, and a couple from around Papua New Guinea.

January: New bits and pieces from December and from trying to hide from the EC and WTO in Europe.

December: One or two from October. I've been out of the country for a while so this brings us up to date.

Intro

My name is Dan Hetherington. This site is a collection of photos that I've taken over the past however many years. It also houses a selection by Oli Stewart, although that isn't really anything to do with me. For the most part these pictures don't represent anything or have any deliberate meaning or purpose. Malcolm MacLaren is dubiously quoted as proclaiming that "Plagiarism is what the world's about. If you didn't start seeing things and stealing them because you were so inspired by them, you'd be stupid." That is mostly what photography means to me. All I really try to do is steal pieces of reality that I want to show somebody else. This kind of photography is not creative. There is more than enough stuff happening out there for me to steal and show you without needing and go and invent any more of it.

Each image below will take you to a collection of pictures drawn from the same time and place. The 'info' link next to each photo will take you to a few words about the collection as a whole, but for the time being the explanations are rather Spartan. Without intention there is barely anything to explain. One of the great things about photography is that when you steal from reality, you tend to steal a little bit more than you ever intended. I'm more than happy for you to find all kinds of stuff in there that I never noticed. The more I tell you about the pictures the more I worry that I might start to blind you to anything in them that doesn't fit with the way that I look at it all.

Silencescape is not a typo for Silence Escape. It is derived from landscape, seascape, soundscape, etc. A silencescape is a panorama of silence.