The big picture: the faces and places of the Australian outback
Travelling 30,000km through the country’s rural expanse, Adam Ferguson has created a portrait of modern bush life, including some remote Swifties
It is said that we spend the first decades of our lives trying to escape from home and the subsequent years looking for ways to return to it. The Australian photographer Adam Ferguson grew up in a town called Dubbo, in the outback of New South Wales. His family moved to the coast when he was 12; as soon as he could, as an adult, he departed for New York, working in conflict zones in Afghanistan and elsewhere. About 10 years ago, his thoughts returned to the places he had left behind.
In 2014, Ferguson began to work on a project he calls Big Sky, travelling more than 30,000km through the Australian bush, photographing the inhabitants of mining towns, sheep stations and remote settlements. “Part of the experience of living in this huge, sweeping landscape is the relationship each individual has to form with this isolating environment,” Ferguson has said of this work. “It made sense to position everybody in the spaces they have to occupy. I wanted to construct a scene which complemented, or helped to reinforce, that person’s story.”
Big Sky is published by Gost (£50)
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