This gallery refers to the possible futures of the Mallee country in the Anthropocene era. Climate science informs us that climate heating will result in less rainfall, drier conditions, longer and more intense droughts, and reduced river flows for this … Read More
The Absent History theme of the Photographing the Mallee project refers to history that has been forgotten displaced. This approach to photographing the Mallee emerged during the collaborative Mallee Routes (2017-2019) section of the project. Towards the end of this … Read More
In this post I mentioned that I would be staying at Kapunda during mid-August spring camp with with Suzanne’s Lavender Trail walking friends. I planned to go off daily into the Murray Mallee to make photographs for the Eye on … Read More
The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in Australia killed off my plans to start the solo stage of photographing the old Mallee Routes project– now Eye on the Mallee. The original plan was to spend a bit of time photographing … Read More
As a counter to the concerns in this post Adam Dutkiewicz has reviewed the collaborative Mallee Routes 2019-2020 exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery in South Australia. This was the final collaborative exhibition in this long term project. Adam’s … Read More
On Sunday, January 12th, 2020, with the closure of the Mallee Routes exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, the collaborative part of Photographing the Mallee finally comes to an end after 3 years. The 2019/2020 Mallee Routes exhibition is … Read More
Gary Gary Sauer-Thompson is a photographer, blogger and curator based at Victor Harbor on the southern coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia. He has an M.Com from Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand, and a PhD (in philosophy) from Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide, … Read More
Galleries The Absent History, Space/Place and Unknown Futures galleries structure the different approaches to photographing the Mallee country. These are situated in the context of the visual history of representing the Mallee.
