Photo Galleries and Essays
An informal set of galleries and photo essays that didn’t make the cut for my more formal HamishReid.com site.
Emeryville in the 1980’s and 1990’s
Photos of Emeryville, California, from the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Under London
Photos of London Underground (the Tube) in the late 1980’s.
Desert Junk
What amazed me most when I first drove into the Californian deserts some thirty years ago was the pervasive junk…
The Occupation
A Photo Essay on Berkeley People’s Park Riots and Demonstrations, 1991
About Pandemonia
About Pandemonia
Note: as of May 2021, Pandemonia.com is undergoing yet another renovation, so things are probably missing and / or out of place. Sorry about that…
The Site
Pandemonia is an informal place for Hamish Reid’s photography, video, and associated writing, including photo essays, reviews, and more. It’s effectively a less-formal, more immediate version of my HamishReid.com portfolio site, with content that wouldn’t necessarily fit there.
The History
Pandemonia has History (it predates the original Netscape browser), and some of the old stuff is still around if you really want to see it, at Old Pandemonia (I leave those pages up as a sometimes-amusing look at what might have passed for a state-of-the-art photography website in the mid-1990’s). Someday soon most of that stuff will be taken down, but in the meantime, it’s still sort of there, if you know where to look.
The Photos
The photos on Pandemonia range from snapshots done with an iPhone to stuff done with a 4×5 view camera, and from the film era to current digital technology (with a strong bias towards digital — I never get nostalgic for darkrooms and film). The subjects range from desert landscapes through urban streetscapes to people to digital manipulations — i.e. whatever I happen to see (or “see”) at the time. Few of the photos in Pandemonia are technically much good; they don’t pretend to be anything more than what they are — snapshots or photos taken in hurried circumstances (sometimes while trespassing), just trying to document what I see.
All images are Copyright © Hamish Reid, Richmond, California, unless otherwise specifically stated.
The Photographer (Hamish Reid)
I am an Anglo-Australian photographer currently living in Richmond, California. I work as a software professional and (sometimes) as a photographer; I’m also a private pilot based at Oakland (KOAK) and Hayward (KHWD) airports.
My more formal photography showcase is at photography.hamishreid.com; and my videos can be seen at my Vimeo and Youtube channels. Other sites include my California from the Side of the Road Tumblr; my @jingletown Instagram stream; and my (very out of date) Yankee Alpha Foxtrot Bravo general aviation flying blog. My (inevitable) Facebook photo page is Hamish Reid Photography.