I’ve just published Pine Smoke, an album of fifty-seven landscape photographs from the west of Tasmania.
Pine Smoke
This was my third trip to Tasmania, a place I like to visit because the climate and terrain remind me a lot of the South Island of New Zealand (home). On this trip I set out to photograph landscapes of industry – forestry, hydro electricity, farming, and mining. The more I learned about the history and present day of the region, the more parallels emerged with Otago and the West Coast.
Ahead of the trip I had been viewing a lot of photographer Robert Adams’ work, and watching interviews he had done. I find the way he photographs and talks about the intersection of nature and human activity compelling, specifically The New West and his earlier work in the New Topographics movement. A typical photograph from that project might show a new suburb of identical, cookie-cutter housing set against a grand New Mexico mountain range illuminated at sunset. Adams has another photography collection centered around the practice of clear-cutting in forestry. This inspired me to search for clear cuts in the areas I was travelling, and I photographed two blocks where slash was burning.
Series of Pipes
All images were shot on 35mm Ilford XP2 black and white film using Voigtlander prime lenses – 40mm, 58mm, and 90mm.
Browse the full album: Pine Smoke.
