I Love This Place

Steven Salgo’s labour of love for the locale he’s spent his life in documents the goings-on at four eastern suburbs beaches over a year.

Though you may be intimately familiar with Bondi, Clovelly, Tamarama and Bronte, you will see each of them in a different light and be reminded just how beautiful they are in this heartfelt work.

You will wonder at the people drawn to the beach: painters, yogis, tightrope walkers, fashion models, fisherman, salsa dancers and surfers – and all of them linked to the moods of the sea  throughout the seasons.

It’s also a kind of time capsule. Perhaps a hundred years from now people will see this and wonder at what it said about us: Australians liked to walk along the sand, sunbathe, swim, surf. . . what quaint, uncomplicated people they were! Wonder what happened to them? Where are they now?

David Roberts provides the atmospheric music score. (MMu)

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Written by Michael Muir