Feature Journalism
Feature Journalism
“Gordon Country” – Travel story for Outback magazine, Dec 2017
The Gordon family has been sharing their cattle station with campers for over 40 years...
Photo credit: Ricky French
Under a grey sky two children sit...
“The Murray River Walk” – Travel story for The Australian newspaper T&I
The lightness of being at one with the landscape...
Wendy is taking team bonding to a new level. It’s 7am, we’re standing on a crumbling...
“Toy Giant” – cover story for the Weekend Australian Magazine
From refugee to billionaire, how Manny Stul built a global empire
photo credit: Nick Cubbin
Make them bright. Give them a name, a face and a...
“The old curiosity shop” – The Weekend Australian Magazine
Published in the Weekend Australian Magazine, July 2017
Photo credit: Julian Kingma
You don’t notice how out of place 330 King Street, Melbourne, looks because it’s...
“Firelighters – the tramping dating app” – Wilderness Magazine
Published in Wilderness Magazine, July 2017
Tramping can sometimes bring people together in the most unexpected ways. Generally though it’s not considered to be the...
Interview with The Wheeler Centre – “Working with words”
Interview with Ricky French by The Wheeler Centre.Ricky French is a Melbourne-based journalist who specialises in longform and creative non-fiction. He writes regularly for the Weekend...
“Deadly Trigger” – The Weekend Australian Magazine
Storm photo credit: Norm Oorloff
A feature story for the Weekend Australian Magazine, April 2017
Photo credit: Julian Kingma
There was a DJ at Hope Carnevali’s 21st....
“Purred Lines – The Cats of Kuching” – The Saturday Paper
Published in The Saturday Paper, April 2017
Photo credit: Ricky French
Kuching is the sound of one ringgit landing in a sampan driver’s money pouch on...
“The Cooling Pond” – The Australian newspaper T&I
Published in the Australian Newspaper, June 2013
Let us celebrate a weekend in grime. Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley lays claim to...
“Game Changer” – The Weekend Australian Magazine
A feature story for the Weekend Australian Magazine, March 2017
The pinball wizard saving elderly people's lives
Photo credit: Julian Kingma
The old clunkers still work fine....