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The Australian Outback as you've never seen it before

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Adam Ferguson had plans for what his photography series was going to be.

But the subject matter had other ideas.
Ferguson, a photographer who has returned to his native Australia after years living abroad, wanted to document the Australian Outback in an unsentimental way. But during the decade he spent working on the project, climate change, the pandemic and other narratives changed its trajectory.

The end result is “Big Sky,” a monograph published by Gost Books in 2024.

“I actually set out to make a book of portraits,” says Ferguson, who has taken portraits of American soldiers, migrants at the US border, Afghan women and others over the course of his career as a documentary photographer. “But I realized quickly that the landscape and the earth was such an intrinsic part of the story that I had to photograph more than just people.”

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Really amazing and unique visions of Australia.
It's an interesting story of how his vision evolved and how he pivoted to this view.
My visit to Australia was brief by my standards of travel, but it was wonderful.
I was lucky to get out of Sydney and travel with a personal guide.
 
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