
Going to the Opera:
WHAT IF...
Australia was at war
What if Australia became the Ukraine of the Pacific – left to fight a US proxy war with China?
What if we were invaded by Israelis, Iranians, Indonesians,, the Chinese, Russians, Americans – or Aliens?
What if there is no longer international law and bombing babies, hospitals and homes here becomes the norm?
What if drones over our beaches target surfers and swimmers, not sharks?
What if New Year on Sydney Harbour was lit up by white phosphorous, not fireworks?
What If we must flee war as boat people or shelter in crowded refugee camps on our beaches
Composite photography layering AI, social media and raw DSLR images shot on location in Sydney and Beirut.

As bombs drop on Sydney Harbour foreshore, people take to boats. Turning back one woman and her boy witness the devastation

Beach goers flee drones and bombs at Bondi

Panic as bombs drop over the city

Office workers run in alarm as the CBD comes under attack

It is a war crime to bomb hospitals and kill doctors, nurses, medic, mothers and babies

Bondi Beach invasion

Soldiers abduct a child on the beach at gunpoint

Sydney eastern suburbs refugee camp Coogee

Tents cluster around the shells of apartment blocks