My working on this project had been put on hold whilst I helped to complete the Adelaide Art Photographers 1970-2000 book, and then finalise the images and text for the final collaborative Mallee Routes exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery.
I did make the Wentworth photocamp as well as a subsequent photocamp at Tanunda. The photography for the ‘Absent History’ section of the Mallee Routes exhibition spread into, or overlapped with, the early settler colonial history associated with the Overland Stock Route.
The direction of my photography in the Godson project has been changing, in that the focus has shifted away from the Murray River to the early colonial encounters with the indigenous aboriginal people. The Our Country Our Waters project is developing a life of its own outside the proposed Godson one. At both of the above photocamps I made some b+w photos with the 8×10 Cambo at Lake Victoria and along the Overland Stock Route. I also scoped around Lake Bonney in Barmera in South Australia’s Riverland. I have yet to develop the b+w film.
The last time I heard anything about the Godson Murray River project in mid 2019 was that a grant for a curator was going to be applied for. I have heard nothing since, and I don’t know if the grant application is in process.
Nourishing Terrains 
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