Through an exploration of iconic Australian events, small towns and his own extended family, Big Sky by
Australian photographer Adam Ferguson, attempts to capture a personal vision of Australia that comments
on a way of life that is in decline.

Big Sky captures a shift from pastoral to industrial to urban, hoping to dispute the sentimental narratives that have prevailed around the bush, providing a contemporary portrait of the ‘Outback,’ a place central to the identity and
development of modern day Australia.

Details

ISBN13: 9781915423443
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 88
Edition:
Publication Date: 12 Dec 2024
Publisher: GOST Books
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 33(H)x29(L)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

Adam Ferguson (b.1978) is an Australian artist living on Gadigal Country, Sydney, Australia. He completed a Bachelor's degree in Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and is currently a Master of Fine Arts research candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institue of Technology School of Art. Ferguson began his career working as a photojournalist covering the U.S led war in Afghanistan and has since worked internationally exploring narratives around conflict and displacement.

Reviews

'For sixteen years, he [Ferguson] was based in
New York but travelled widely to cover international conflicts--in Afghanistan, for The New Yorker; Nigeria, for the Times; and elsewhere. Eventually, he told
me, he found himself feeling homesick and traumatized, but also confused. "I'd
spent so long working through translators," he said. "I wanted to tell a story
about my own country, my own people--something that I know intimately."' Helen Sullivan The New Yorker

'He [Ferguson] started coming back to
Australia for progressively longer stays, and went in search of the people a
twelve-year-old might want to meet: the drover, the cattleman, the roo shooter.
What he found were individuals who both did--and didn't--fit the ideas he'd had
about his home. Cattlewomen, for instance, and Swifties, and drunk lovers, and
a drag artist playing Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, in a tribute show at a
local pub. In late 2021, he moved back to his homeland for good--or, at least,
for now. The photographs he has taken there in the past decade are collected in
his first monograph, "Big Sky"' Helen Sullivan The New Yorker