Big Sky

Through an exploration of iconic Australian events, small towns and his own extended family, Big Sky byAustralian photographer Adam Ferguson, attempts to capture a personal vision of Australia that commentson a way of life that is in decline.

''His photographs have their own powers oftransformation. Towers of almonds, covered haphazardly with plastic sheetingand held down by car tires, become a misty valley; a rainbow ends not in a potof gold but at an opal-mine junk yard. Kids at the top of the stairs on aplayground slide call to mind brushtail possums caught in the beam of aflashlight. A man lies face down on his horse, and a hat has fallen to theground—it is the horse, not the man, who seems likeliest to have lost it.''  Helen Sullivan The NewYorker

Adam Ferguson began photographing Australia’s interior in 2013 in an attempt to dispel sentimental and outdated narratives around the ‘Outback’—a place central to the identity and development of modern day Australia.

His photographic survey, made over a 10-year period, depicts fading traditional events, shrinking small towns, Aboriginal connection to Country, the impacts of globalisation and the adversity of climate change to illustrate the complex realities of contemporary life in the ‘Outback’.

• | Author: Adam Ferguson
• | Publisher: GOST Books
• | Publication Date: Oct 14, 2024
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781915423443
• | ISBN-10: 1915423449