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October 6, 2009
I missed Tim Burder's work at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. A former accountant, he lives in Daylesford in Victoria, where he has been trying to make a go of photography as a living for the last seven years. His show at The Eureka Center, Ballarat was entitled Deserted Works:
Tim Burder, Strzlecki Track 3, South Australia
This consisted of large panoramas from the outback of South Australia and Western NSW. My preference is for the more abstract or austere images as opposed to the more dramatic ones with their sweeping cloud formations.
Tim Burder, Lake Eyre, South Australia
I suspect that this image of Lake Eyre is not in the 'Deserted Works' exhibition since it is not a panorama. I appreciate that the vastness of the Australian desert with dramatic clouds, can refer to the sublime, and Burder does link this work back to the Kantian sublime:
The desert gives us many awe-inspiring sights and quite often the beauty is just in the sheer “bigness” of the place. There is nothing like the night sky seen from the desert to give the sense of how insignificant we are and, by extension, how pointless our pettiness is.
Somehow a more minimalist approach appears to be more appropriate given the pervasiveness of the tourist and HDR aesthetic on Flickr.
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gah can't believe I missed that one too; if I'd known I'd have made of an effort to get out there to see it