Smalltown
ISBN 10: 1926428129
Large format book with essay by Tim Winton,
65 photographs shot on a 10 x 8 Large Format Camera
published by Penguin Global
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Smalltown The Exhibition was launched at The Museum of Sydney in October 2009, supported by Visions of Australia, it toured nationwide to over 15 galleries and museums over a 3 year period. In early 2018 The National Library of Australia aquired 50 Exhibition prints for their permanent Collection.
Link to Exhibition info>
In this rich and thought provoking collaboration Martin Mischkulnig and Tim Winton present a beguiling meditation on the particular collision of beauty and ugliness in Australia’s far flung towns.
Great Barrier Highway, New South Wales
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Exmouth, Western Australia
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South Queenstown, Tasmania
Exmouth, Western Australia
South Queenstown, Tasmania
Without pulling any punches, this is an affectionate, exasperated take on ‘fugliness and the smalltown shambolic’ where both photographer and writer create a stark beauty, despite the sad conviction that ‘there is nothing so bleak in country Australia as the places humans have built there’.
Port Hedland, Western Australia