Dusk in the Lachlan Valley, June 2024
Last year on sabbatical I revisited graziers in the Australian sheep-wheat belt who I had interviewed during my postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU) back in 2008-9. We did farm tours to capture repeat photography of images they captured as significant to their property back then, at the end of the Millennium Drought, and had interviews about the photo pairs. It was without a doubt the most fun I’ve ever had in the field.
Nova Scotia farmer and Dal alumna Maria Duynisveld has been helping me with the transcriptions and analysis, but also put together a few profiles in partnership with some of the participating farmers for the Sustainable Farms team at ANU who helped support the work. Those have all now been published.
Sunset in the Lachlan Valley, June 2024
Neil and Marg Stuart‘s profile about their work on their property Glanmire is featured on the Sustainable Farms page of farmer stories, as did Grant and Lizzie Molloy’s profile about their work on Dairy Park.
David and Mary Marsh‘s and Vince Heffernan‘s profiles about their work on Allendale and Moorlands, respectively, are featured on the Box Gum Grassy Woodland page that Sustainable Farms has set up to support this endangered ecoregion.
Really excited to be able to contribute to telling these inspiring stories, and show the value of repeat photography in doing so.
Grant and Lizzie Molloy doing repeat photography with me on their property, Dairy Park.
