Category: landscape
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The Lachlan River at Cowra
We briefly stayed at Cowra whilst on a small road trip to Canberra and Melbourne in August. I wanted to have a look at the Lachlan River as it is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment and hence a part of the Murray-Darling Basin. The river, which starts near near Goulburn in the Great Dividing Range,…
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Absent history
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.…
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pre-Mabo narratives of Australia
When you step into history of water and country in Anglo-Australian society you quickly reconnect with the colonisation of Australia, the pre-Mabo narratives of Australia as an empty landscape (the doctrine of terra nullius), the colonialist discourses that we are rooted in colonialist ideologies and legacies and racist law. These justify and legitimate the nigger hunts…
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revisiting Salt Creek
We stayed a night at Salt Creek in the Coorong on our return to Adelaide after spending a few days on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne with family. The overnight stay allowed me to do some photography on an early morning poodlewalk around the eroded calcified limestone formations at the Salt Creek outlet…
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salty landscapes
Clearing the land of vegetation for agriculture can often mean salty landscapes and salt lakes as well as salty ground water that flows into the River Murray. The felling of billions of trees (approximately 15 billion) to make room for the farming in the Murray-Darling Basin, which has led to economic growth and national prosperity, …
Nourishing Terrains 