"My kids haven't told me anything, but I've got a feeling they will sell it," he said. "You had rooms that weren't necessary or you just didn't use - like a dining room or lounge room - as all the action was in the kitchen.Īs for Mr Di Risio, he's pretty sure about the fate of his home once he passes away. "In a way, a lot of those houses that were built back then were almost impractical. "This happens a lot as soon as elderly parents die: the kids aren't interested in the house because it doesn't suit what they need," he said. He sold his childhood home - a weatherboard built by his father, Donato, in the 1960s - which has now made way for townhouses. "In retrospect, I probably should've kept it," Rocco Russo, a first-generation Italian-Australian, told the ABC. Middle-ring suburbs such as Sunshine in Melbourne's west, pictured, are being prized for their potential to house more people. "They've just been Joe Blow living in a house for years and don't see it as a historical item in itself," Kirk said. His photos bear the hallmarks of the post-modern period, where images show houses complete with a white lion sitting atop a brick fence, a Corinthian pillar, or a multitude of classical arches.įor years, Kirk has gained access to houses and their inhabitants through word of mouth and his work has been described as a process of capturing a "vanishing suburbia".
Warren Kirk is a Melbourne-based photographer whose work has documented this era of Australian suburbia, initially catching the attention of people on Flickr before being published in photobook form. (Warren Kirk)ĭuring the post-modern period, various periods of culture - from the Baroque to the neo-classical- were mixed together to create new forms of cultural expression, often done with an ironic wink. This mid-Victorian house in inner Melbourne subsequently went through a number of post-modern revisions.
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