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Australia Exposed
Behind the scenes stories
A Foreword by Jack Thompson
When I left my home in Sydney in 1955, I exchanged an urban life by the glistening waters of the pacific for the life of a station-hand in the arid heartland of the Northern Territory. A Landscape largely untouched by the mark of man and as omnipresent as time itself. The ochre-red dust of these apparently endless plains seemed to cover almost everything.
Australia is geologically, the oldest of the continental landmasses and her ancient lineage is nowhere more apparent than in the very texture of the land itself. It seems to permeate all things, even those who live in it. I fell in love with this gaunt beauty, a love that remains to this day.
When I first saw Jason Kimberley’s photographs I knew that he too had fallen in love with this, “beauty burnished by the sun.” Australia Exposed is more than a photographic essay, it is a loving and often iaconic song of praise to the land and it’s people, a celebration of out heritage.
It is a tribute to our common muse – “The Bush.”
