Some people still enjoy taking photographs with a film camera. Jez Heywood is one of those people and he regularly contributes his efforts to the museum’s Sign Design in Australia Flickr group under the name of ‘Heywood Industries’.
Jez grew up with SLRs because his father was a pro photographer. He has been shooting for the past 15 years or so, but says the bug has hit hard recently, partly because he is now able to afford to pay for cameras, repairs and film, and partly because he needs a creative outlet away from his job. He owns eleven cameras and although he enjoys his toy cameras (Lomo, Holga, etc) he usually prefers to take his time and use manual control.
Jez was pleased with this photograph of the Wai Sing sign that he took with a Lomo LC-A on Ilford Delta 100 film. He says: “I pass this sign on a regular basis, and every time I went by on the bus I tried to work out what had been painted over. After finally getting a photograph, I realised that the sign underneath is ‘The Busy Bee Café’ “.
It’s hard to say when the Busy Bee sign was painted, but the Wai Sing sign may have been there since a café of that name opened in the 1950s. The café was part of the story of the Yen familyin Sydney, whose origins are in the Guangdong province in China. Look out for the sign in Glebe Point Road.
Photography by Heywood Industries
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Posted by Megan Hicks (meganix), Sign Design in Australia team
