Footscray

Welcome to the west. The vital community of Footscray is often reduced to lazy evaluations of cheap rent, cheap food and the impending doom of gentrification. Through a fairer and meaningful view, you will find an inclusive area where inner-city living is at its realest, as has been for a long time. In a short single block you can find a university, an Ethiopian restaurant, a new bar & gallery, an Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, an organic produce co-op and a DIY community space. A conflicting place, impossible to pin down in one paragraph. Footscray was built on the stolen traditional lands of the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.

All photography by: Gianna Rizzo

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Address
61 Victoria Street
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A homely little shop in the front of someone’s actual home right next to Middle Footscray Station. It is both the workshop and store for art and fashion items made by Westside residents, Alana and Annabelle. The space itself alone is worth a visit for the DIY interior enthusiast – those blue titles and pink walls aren’t going to show up on Tumblr themselves. In addition to their own creations, they also stock zines, candles, ceramics and clothes by fellow local makers. When we came to photograph, we actually met 2 of their collaborators who happened to be dropping off new things. Either that was really really well-planned, or it’s just a genuine hub of supportive like-minded artists. More of this please. Photography by Gianna Rizzo.

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Brother Nancy

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