SWPA Photographer of the 12 months 2022 Adam Ferguson featured in solo exhibition

The World Images Organisation has introduced {that a} solo exhibition by Australian photographer Adam Ferguson, who received the Photographer of the 12 months 2022 award, shall be showcased as a part of the Sony World Images Awards 2023 exhibition at Somerset Home in London from 14 April to 1 Might 2023

Adam Ferguson is the primary recipient of a brand new prize for the Awards the place the Photographer of the 12 months is rewarded with a solo presentation of their work as a part of the Sony World Images Awards London exhibition the next yr. The exhibition, titled Silent Wind, Roaring Sky,  paperwork the agricultural communities residing in Australia’s Outback over eight years. and explores the put up colonial legacy of the Outback in addition to the impacts of globalisation and local weather change.

Ferguson has described Silent Wind, Roaring Sky as an ‘try to problem and place archetypal tropes of Australian id with the advanced realities of up to date life within the Outback.’

The World Images Organisation is delighted to current Silent Wind, Roaring Sky, a solo exhibition by the acclaimed Australian photographer Adam Ferguson, winner of the distinguished Photographer of the 12 months 2022. The work paperwork the distant lives of communities in Australia’s outback and is showcased as a part of the Sony World Images Awards 2023 exhibition at Somerset Home, London this April.

Silent Wind, Roaring Sky charts repeated journeys, over the course of eight years, deep into rural Australia, a spot of nice significance for Ferguson who grew up along with his household’s tales and pictures of life within the Outback. With time he turned conscious of its maintain on the general public consciousness as a mythologised and unknowable wilderness and felt compelled to look at it in his work.

Ferguson discovered a panorama and a neighborhood in a state of dramatic transition: Australia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth, and the outback is more and more impacted by the results of local weather change and globalisation. By this deeply private journey, Ferguson explores the put up colonial legacy of the Outback, displays on land stolen from Aboriginal Australians, and tells the tales of communities residing by means of a second of disaster, the place the signature crimson mud has turn into a rising menace, and the place the endemic poverty of Aboriginal Australians is pronounced.

Commenting on the collection Adam Ferguson says: ‘Silent Wind, Roaring Sky is a photographic survey of Australia’s heartland. Drawing on childhood reminiscences and travelling documentation, I observe fading but iconic occasions, Aboriginal connection to the nation, shrinking small-towns, pastoralism, the impacts of globalisation, and the adversity of local weather change. I try to problem and place archetypal tropes of Australian id with the advanced realities of up to date life within the Outback.’

Ferguson was awarded the distinguished Photographer of the 12 months title in 2022 and is the primary recipient of a brand new prize factor for the Award: from 2023 onwards the Photographer of the 12 months is rewarded with a solo presentation of their work as a part of the Sony World Images Awards London exhibition the next yr. That is along with the $25,000 money prize, a variety of Sony digital imaging tools. The chance permits photographers to additional develop their successful venture or exhibit one other physique of labor, gaining them extra publicity and advancing their careers.

Silent Wind, Roaring Sky shall be printed in a devoted photobook, together with new and beforehand unseen pictures from the collection, by GOST Books, in February 2024.

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