{"product_id":"big-sky-9781915423443","title":"Big Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough an exploration of iconic Australian events, small towns and his own extended family, Big Sky by\u003cbr\u003eAustralian photographer Adam Ferguson, attempts to capture a personal vision of Australia that comments\u003cbr\u003eon a way of life that is in decline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBig 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\u003cbr\u003edevelopment of modern day Australia.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781915423443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 12 Dec 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: GOST Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 33(H)x29(L)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eAdam 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.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ci\u003e'For sixteen years, he [Ferguson] was based in\u003cbr\u003eNew York but travelled widely to cover international conflicts--in Afghanistan, for The New Yorker; Nigeria, for the Times; and elsewhere. Eventually, he told\u003cbr\u003eme, he found himself feeling homesick and traumatized, but also confused. \"I'd\u003cbr\u003espent so long working through translators,\" he said. \"I wanted to tell a story\u003cbr\u003eabout my own country, my own people--something that I know intimately.\"' \u003c\/i\u003eHelen Sullivan \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'He [Ferguson] started coming back to\u003cbr\u003eAustralia for progressively longer stays, and went in search of the people a\u003cbr\u003etwelve-year-old might want to meet: the drover, the cattleman, the roo shooter.\u003cbr\u003eWhat he found were individuals who both did--and didn't--fit the ideas he'd had\u003cbr\u003eabout his home. Cattlewomen, for instance, and Swifties, and drunk lovers, and\u003cbr\u003ea drag artist playing Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, in a tribute show at a\u003cbr\u003elocal pub. In late 2021, he moved back to his homeland for good--or, at least, \u003cbr\u003efor now. The photographs he has taken there in the past decade are collected in\u003cbr\u003ehis first monograph, \"Big Sky\"' \u003c\/i\u003eHelen Sullivan \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adam Ferguson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48781301022937,"sku":"9781915423443","price":138.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/71C9OehcDXL._SL1195.jpg?v=1780588770","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/big-sky-9781915423443","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}