‘When someone like Warren Kirk drifts in with his camera, bringing his patient eye to sites of modest dreaming, something entrancing happens,’ writes Helen Garner in the introduction to Kirk’s new book, Westography: Images of a Vanishing Suburbia.



The Melbourne photographer has spent a decade documenting the people, homes, vehicles and buildings of his city’s western suburbs. He revels in the retro aesthetic of the area, which is reminiscent of the 1970s and, in his photos, seems to swim in what Garner calls ‘a slowed-down mood, respectful, drily comic, almost other-worldly’