Rebecca Allen reviews Stories of Sydney Ed Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Stories of Sydney
Ed by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
ISBN 978-1-921134-26-5
Reviewed by REBECCA ALLEN
Soaring white-tiled sails curve up into the cloudless sky. Below, foamy tails of boats criss-cross that famous stretch of liquid blue. Waves glitter in the summer sun. A post-card city.
Sydney shows off the same made-up face in thousands of glossy snapshots sold down at Circular Quay. Though irrefutably beautiful, there’s no denying this iconic image we so love to promote is, in fact, a fundamentally two-dimensional representation of a much more complex, multi-faceted reality.