THE STEPS

The western steps of Parliament House have been here since 1856 — longer than most of the city around them. They are a meeting point, a protest ground, a backdrop, and a stage, depending on the day and the crowd. I keep photographing them because they are one of the few fixed points in a city that doesn't stop moving, and because the neoclassical basalt does something extraordinary with late afternoon light. The steps stay still. Everything else keeps changing.