Adelaide Adelaide is a city of light - the day-light can be intense and the skies are often a brilliant cloudless blue - for a visit remember to pack your sun glasses. This exhibition takes an alternative view - and presents images of Adelaide by night-light. Adelaide is the driest city in Australia, it has dozens of wonderful beaches of golden sand, and expansive great deserts to the north. Adelaide was designed by Anglo-Malay Captain William Light (1786-1839) as a garden city with the CBD a grid of wide roads and five large public squares, all surrounded by 700 hectares of parkland. Adelaide is Australia's most liveable city (State of Australian Cities Report, 2012) and the world’s fifth most liveable city (Global Liveability Survey, 2012). Adelaide was settled by the South Australian Corporation as what has been called a “paradise of dissent” (Douglas Pike, 1957). Adelaide was founded on 28th December 1836 (after Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne) to manifest a Utopian vision of George Fife Angas (1789-1879). Adelaide has been described as “the city of churches” and from the outset it offered a refuge from the religious persecution and intolerance in Europe. Such early immigrants included German-speaking Lutherans from Silesia, Prussia (now Poland). The city is named after Queen Adelaide (1792-1849). Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia. The population is 1.23 million (2011 census). The city of Wuhan in Hubei, China, is a sister city to Adelaide.

1. Adelaide
by Night Light
Photographs by John Paull
Noarlunga Jetty, Adelaide, South Australia
john.paull@mail.com

2. Noarlunga Jetty, Adelaide

3. Riverbank Promenade, River Torrens, Adelaide

4. Festival Theatre, Adelaide

5. Adelaide Oval Stadium

6. Adelaide Casino

7. Adelaide Convention Centre

8. University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide

9. University of Adelaide, North Terrace

10. Window reflections, North Terrace, Adelaide

11. Scots Church, Uniting Church, North Terrace, Adelaide

12. South Australia State Library, North Terrace, Adelaide

13. War Memorial (The Great War 1914-1918), North Terrace, Adelaide

14. Adelaide Railway Station, concourse

15. Adelaide Arcade, Rundle Mall

16. Art mural, corner Rundle Street & Frome Street, Adelaide

17. Rundle Lantern, car park facade

18. Rundle Lantern, car park, Rundle Street, Adelaide

19. Rundle Lantern, car park

20. Apple store, Rundle Mall, Adelaide

21. St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Cathedral, Adelaide

22. St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Cathedral, Adelaide

23. St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Cathedral, Adelaide

24. Adelaide Magistrates Court

25. Supreme Court of South Australia, Adelaide

26. The Stag Hotel, East Terrace, Adelaide

27. Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange building, East Terrace, Adelaide

28. SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre, Marion, Adelaide

29. Channel 7 TV Station

30. Tram stop, Adelaide Entertainment Centre

31. Adelaide Entertainment Centre

32. Adelaide Entertainment Centre

33. Adelaide
Adelaide is a city of light - the day-light can be intense and the skies are often a brilliant cloudless blue
- for a visit remember to pack your sun glasses.
This exhibition takes an alternative view - and presents images of Adelaide by night-light.
Adelaide is the driest city in Australia, it has dozens of wonderful beaches of golden sand, and
expansive great deserts to the north.
Adelaide was designed by Anglo-Malay Captain William Light (1786-1839) as a garden city with the
CBD a grid of wide roads and five large public squares, all surrounded by 700 hectares of parkland.
Adelaide is Australia's most liveable city (State of Australian Cities Report, 2012) and the world’s fifth
most liveable city (Global Liveability Survey, 2012).
Adelaide was settled by the South Australian Corporation as what has been called a “paradise of
dissent” (Douglas Pike, 1957). Adelaide was founded on 28th December 1836 (after Sydney, Hobart,
Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne) to manifest a Utopian vision of George Fife Angas (1789-1879).
Adelaide has been described as “the city of churches” and from the outset it offered a refuge from
the religious persecution and intolerance in Europe. Such early immigrants included German-speaking
Lutherans from Silesia, Prussia (now Poland).
The city is named after Queen Adelaide (1792-1849).
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia.
The population is 1.23 million (2011 census).
CC-BY-3.0 John Paull (john.paull@mail.com)