Murray Fredericks Seeks Release From Vanity
March 08, 2021 | in Photography
Australian photographer Murray Fredericks’ ongoing relationship with Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, where this series Vanity is captured, commenced in 2003, and consists of more than twenty journeys to the lake where he photographs for weeks at a time in the vast and boundless landscape. Fredericks is not interested in documenting the literal forms of the landscape, but instead views it as medium in itself that has the potential to convey the emotional response of his experience and results in images that are utterly sublime. In infinite variations of color and clouds, sky and salt, light and landscape, tied together by an unbroken horizon, the viewer can step outside themselves, even just for a moment, to realize the powerful sensation of calm that nature can bestow on the anxieties inherent to the human condition.
Ghostly Arctic Fox and a Snail on a mission win the Travel Photographer of the Year awards
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Ghostly Arctic Fox and a Snail on a mission win the Travel Photographer of the Year awards
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“They should not be handing out petroleum leases whilst they are undertaking consultation to protect these areas.”
Prof Richard Kingsford, director of the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of NSW, has been researching the floodplains of Cooper Creek for two decades.
He said the Cooper Creek floodplain could bulge as wide as 80km during flood in the area of the leases.
He said the basin was an “incredibly complex” system of ephemeral rivers and lakes that can go from isolated pools and dried-up channels during dry periods to rivers many kilometres wide during floods, unleashing an explosion of birds, plant and insect life.