On Country: Photography from Australia is the landmark publication accompanying the first-ever group exhibition of Australian photography at the Rencontres d'Arles 2025, bringing together seventeen Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists whose work reframes what it means to photograph this land.
About This Book
Photography in Australia carries a fraught history — of extraction, of documentation in the service of colonial power, of land made object. On Country moves against that inheritance, placing First Peoples' practice and relationality at the centre of the project. The seventeen artists and collectives gathered here bear witness to both the visible and invisible dimensions of Country: its ongoing relationships, its contested sovereignties, its community bonds. Published to accompany Australia's debut group photography showing at Rencontres d'Arles, this is a publication that treats contemporary Australian photography not as a regional variant of a global medium, but as a site where the politics of seeing — and of being seen — are actively being renegotiated.
Key Features
- 192 pages of contemporary photographic work by seventeen Australian artists and collectives
- Exhibition publication for the first Australian photography group show at Rencontres d'Arles 2025
- Published by Perimeter Editions x PHOTO Australia, ISBN: 9781922545459
What You'll Discover
- How First Peoples' relationality with Country is centred — not marginalised — as the organising principle of contemporary Australian photographic practice
- The way seventeen artists negotiate the visible and invisible: what Country holds that a lens can and cannot capture
- Photography as a site where colonial power dynamics are being actively challenged and redefined by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners
- The intersecting threads of community, identity, and colonial history that run through Australian landscape and documentary photography today
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 192
- Dimensions: 23 x 30 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922545459
- Publisher: Perimeter Editions x PHOTO Australia
- Publication Date: 2025
Perfect For: Photographers, curators, and cultural researchers engaged with Indigenous Australian practice, contemporary photography, and the politics of representation and landscape.