Abandoned buildings are a viewfinder into our heritage and often offer us a story. With over 140 eye-catching images from places such as eerie old factories, crumbling asylums, untouched country theatres, forgotten homes, all with a small insight into their history, this is a showcase of some amazing locations within a few hours’ drive of Brisbane.
The ruins of South Australia are barren, isolated time capsules. In this book you inhale these ghostly narratives upon the opening of each creaking door. A diverse, unique and often unexplored region of the ‘Great Land Down Under’, the visual stories presented here are mere footnotes of South Australia’s long and complex history.
Discarded architectural legacies, the abandoned factories, homes and public places of New South Wales, are small footnotes of history. Here, the past and present clash to reveal a handful of small vignettes that whisper the secrets of those who came to live and dwell. Here are clues that speak of the forgotten lives of Australia’s oldest state.
Abandoned Melbourne shows Melbourne vacant, with the CBD’s places and spaces, customarily buzzing, rendered motionless and without life during the 2020 Covid lockdown. Melbournian landscape photographer Gavin John turned his camera and his focus onto vistas of a different nature and reveals downtown Melbourne as it has never been witnessed before.
The outback, one of the harshest environments in the world, did not stop early settlers from attempting to make a living in the search for gold. Specialised fly-in, fly-out camps have now left once-booming settlements to disappear off the map forever. Erin Jordan’s photographs capture these unique places that have been abandoned and left behind.
Abandoned buildings are a viewfinder into our heritage and often offer us a story. In this beautifully photographed book, the author has captured Perth’s abandoned places in emotive form: places as dark as time; history forgotten in the folds of the subconscious mind; beauty in decay, a presentation of life open to our personal interpretations.
Through an exploration of iconic Australian events, small towns and his own extended family, Big Sky by Australian photographer Adam Ferguson, attempts to capture a personal vision of Australia that comments on a way of life that is in decline.
Every three months a space rocket carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station launches from Kazakhstan. At around the same time, to the northeast in remote grasslands, three other astronauts fall back to earth. The photographs in Some Worlds Have Two Suns document these comings and goings.
Shot across four continents, Route de la Belle Etoile (Route of the Beautiful Star) is the first photobook to document the world of amateur astronomers who have an outsized impact on professional astronomical research.
