Tag: landscape
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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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the photographic landscape tradition
The picturesque in Australian landscape tradition has become part of picturesque tourism and it is misleading in so far as there is no reference to human presence or activity, no visible signs of natural history, no scars from taming the wild river to make it suitable to extract water for irrigated agriculture, towns and cities.
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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 