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December 08, 2006
Photography both encourages amateurs and challenges the way we historically view images and the landscape.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, tree trunks, Clare 2006
If photography is an integral part of popular and mass culture, it can used to question the way our culture dominates nature. Gum trees are seen as petrified nature---a reified world of fixed and hollow forms and conventions.
Hans Heysen, Moving into the Light,
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Coming to Australia for the first time over 6 years ago, my first lasting impression was the Australian landscape and the gum trees. Our kids school has just chopped down a row of beautiful gums. They were planted in the wrong spot. I was very saddened. The picture of Australian gums on a warm clear day shading a bright blue sky will stay with me for ever as my endearing impage of Australia.