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February 4, 2012
I've been looking at my photos from my phototrip to Queenstown, Tasmania in 2011 to see what would work for large format (5x4) when I'm there next month.
I've also been and doing a bit of research on the region as well as background to my phototrip, and I came across the Mike Key photographs of Queenstown around 1995:
Mike Key, Iron Blow open cut mine,1995, silver gelatin print, NLA
I know next to nothing about Mike Key. He did an architectural photographic study of Newfolk on the Derwent River in 1995. It breaks away from the wilderness work of Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, which was centrally concerned with the protection of the natural environment and of wilderness in particular.
Key's work is not a political landscape even though he recognized that this landscape was heavily shaped by the mining industry. It has more in common with 19th century photography
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