Warren Kirk (1951-), c1993. Cibachrome photograph, printed 1998.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s photographer Warren Kirk set out to document the buildings that were beginning to vanish from Victorian streets. His Disappearing Victoria series is a unique visual record of aspects of daily life being lost as a result of either redevelopment or decay. For Kirk, every photograph is a piece of history and these images of milk bars and hairdressers, motels and draperies, capture moments in time in the changing face of Victoria.