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 thirty years. I'll even rewrite your website for you if you need a writer. (and oh so many of you do, really!)
After some years running a photograhic studio, I retired into the quiet calm of the retail world :-). My fifth career! The former owner of the Emporium, Jack Ross, was ready to retire and the business was too important to lose.
Now I'm too frail to run a retal outlet alone and there was no-one prepared or able to take over. So I've closed it down. As the years pass there are new projects and services I'd like to get under way but given 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 bercame a major resource for the retro-photographer, camera collector, photographic decor enthusiast and so on. Som 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.
I love French cameras - and I have some of these!
