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David Peart

I am an Australian landscape and commercial photographer. In 2014, after more than 25 years working and living overseas, I returned to my home country. I was immediately struck by two things: firstly, birdsong. I was rudely awoken at 6 in the morning by a raucous chorus of hundreds of birds heralding the rising sun. On a global scale, this is actually quite a rare thing. But in Australia, pretty much no matter where you are, city or bush, it happens every morning. It used to happen in other countries, but not so much anymore. We are incredibly fortunate that we can still experience it here. Which is the second thing that struck me.

In mainland China, where I spent the last 5 years before I returned home, there are few birds in the cities – they cannot survive the pollution which is regularly dozens of times the international safe limit; trees are relatively few and many need to be washed down to survive the poison air; and in some places, there are children who have never seen blue skies. In Egypt, I saw desert vistas peppered with plastic bags, as far as the eye could see. 

In Australia, we have managed (so far) to preserve a lot of the world’s wild places; even in the midst of capital cities we can still easily find forest, wild animals, and yes, lots of birds.  Venture a few kilometres from the city and you find yourself in some of the most eye-achingly gorgeous landscapes you can see on planet earth. Water, wood, stone and wild animals gather together in a unique kaleidoscope of colours, textures and sound.

I felt that since most Australians have not had the privilege of the wide international exposure that I have, many are unaware that we are effectively the custodians of some of the last and most unique natural landscapes in the world, and therefore I had a duty to bring that awareness to them. So, I started documenting our wild places. What you see here are the fruits of that documentation.

 

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