Gallery

Country, community and the roads between

Photographs held in the Accord collection. Not monuments — the ordinary ground people arrived on, worked over and eventually called home.

Red dirt road running between stands of eucalypts under a broken sky — The Road Out
Ochre track, mallee scrub, weather coming — the country most arrivals only read about.

Bridge across a lake at sunset with hills silhouetted behind — Crossing at Dusk
Water, steel and hill country: the infrastructure a migrant generation helped build.

A red dirt track cutting through golden grassland toward distant escarpments — Toward the Range
The long line inland: spinifex, mesa country, and the promise of what lies beyond the horizon.

Silhouette of a windmill and water tank against a golden dusk sky — Windmill & Tank
Water first. Everything a farm becomes begins with this.

Straight red dirt road under heavy grey storm clouds — Storm Front
The long straight, the coming rain — patience as a national habit.

A man wearing an Australian flag standing in a crowd lining a street — Along the Street
Community in public: the flag carried, not commanded.

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