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Big Sky captures a shift from pastoral to industrial to urban, hoping to dispute the sentimental narratives that have prevailed around the bush, providing a contemporary portrait of the ‘Outback,’ a place central to the identity and development of modern day Australia.

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"'For sixteen years, he [Ferguson] was based in New York but travelled widely to cover international conflicts--in Afghanistan, for The New Yorker; Nigeria, for the Times; and elsewhere. Eventually, he told me, he found himself feeling homesick and traumatized, but also confused. ""I'd spent so long working through translators,"" he said. ""I wanted to tell a story about my own country, my own people--something that I know intimately.""' Helen Sullivan The New Yorker 'He [Ferguson] started coming back to Australia for progressively longer stays, and went in search of the people a twelve-year-old might want to meet: the drover, the cattleman, the roo shooter. What he found were individuals who both did--and didn't--fit the ideas he'd had about his home. Cattlewomen, for instance, and Swifties, and drunk lovers, and a drag artist playing Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, in a tribute show at a local pub. In late 2021, he moved back to his homeland for good--or, at least, for now. The photographs he has taken there in the past decade are collected in his first monograph, ""Big Sky""' Helen Sullivan The New Yorker"

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Adam Ferguson (b.1978) is an Australian artist living on Gadigal Country, Sydney, Australia. He completed a Bachelor's degree in Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and is currently a Master of Fine Arts research candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institue of Technology School of Art. Ferguson began his career working as a photojournalist covering the U.S led war in Afghanistan and has since worked internationally exploring narratives around conflict and displacement.

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