Tokyo. Shanghai. Beijing. Now, comes the first Ricoh GR Space in the southern hemisphere – in Brisbane.

The very first of these spaces opened in Tokyo last year, as a coolly designed community space and gallery revolving around Ricoh’s GR series of cameras, which began to achieve cult-status among street photographers in the mid-2010s.

Clem Kennedy reckons the first question he’s always asked, perhaps predictably, is: why Brisbane? And his answer – “why not?” – could be seen as equally obvious.

The first Ricoh GR Space in the southern hemisphere opened in Spring Hill opened this week.

But the Melbourne-educated, Sydney-based Kennedy has put money where his mouth is. His family’s company, CR Kennedy & Company, in 2021 purchased the former Federal Police building on Wharf Street in Sprin

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