Off the Road Again

Heading north in a Land Cruiser, photographer Bill Bachman found an Australian outback full of contradictions. As his extraordinary photographs show, his is a very different view. The pictures are sometimes startling, sometimes zany, often astonishingly beautiful./n At first it was the vast foregrounds, the empty horizons and enormous skies that captured the photographer's eye. Before long, the big picture began to break into smaller frames -- slabs of colour, slices of light... Bachman shows that the Australian landscape is as much about shape and texture as about space and distance./n Photographer/journalist Bill Bachmann is widely known for his ski photography and writing. His work features in a vast number of Australian and international publications. Many of the photographs in this book were included in his one-man exhibitions at the Kodak Gallery in Sydney and Reflections Gallery in Melbourne.