In his next show, ‘Days Down Here’, Dean Dampney has sought to bring the viewer to the place that he now calls home – the South Coast of New South Wales.
In this series of forty photographs, a sense of community, small town recreation, nurture, and nature are all conveyed with a sensitivity and insight.
In ‘Days Down Here’ Dean has succeeded to continue in the style that brought him public recognition in his last solo exhibition, ‘InGoesWaterBoy’.

Deemed the new Dupain he reveals a “deeper layer of observation…. concentrating on humanity” (Robert McFarlane, July 29, 2003).
’Days Down Here’ will appeal to anyone who’s experienced the natural beauty of the south coast of New South Wales. For every memory, though, that is warmly conjured by the visual stimulus of empty beaches and the winding Princess Highway, it is the emotion stirred by experiencing the place and the people that Dean hopes to evoke.

At 32 years old, Dean has; completed two undergraduate degrees, spent ten winter seasons surfing in Hawaii, travelled the world, and until his latest career change, worn the title of ‘Senior Software Engineer’ for some of the worlds leading IT institutions.
It is down the coast, where Dean originally came surfing with his mates as a teenager, that Dean bases himself as a freelance photographer, and above all, considers home.

Dean’s goal is to continue to create timeless, classic Australian photographs.
It is in this third and most accomplished solo exhibition, ‘Days Down Here’, that Dean aims to further his fast growing reputation, and impress upon the general public an enlightened vision and sense of what a remarkable and lucky nation of people we really are.