Australia through the National Geographic Lens is a new photographic exhibition that opens at the Australian Museum in Sydney on 12 May and runs until 22 July, 2007.

 

April 11, 2007: Australia through the National Geographic Lens is a new photographic exhibition that opens at the Australian Museum in Sydney on 12 May and runs until 22 July, 2007.
Featuring 38 spectacular images from photographer, Sam Abell, the display includes a selection of images from Australia’s far north (known as the Never Never), which encomasses almost

5,000 kilometres, stretching from Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula, through the Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land to the inhospitable and little known coasts of Western Australia’s harsh Kimberly Plateau. These images are contrasted with pictures of coastlines from Victoria’s Shipwreck Coast to the eastern coast of Tasmania, with its cliffs, wildflower-dotted coastal heaths and shimmering quartzite sand beaches.
All photographs are printed larger than life size and framed in natural driftwood. The images in the exhibition were taken by Abell over three years while he researched and photographed for the National Geographic books Australia: Journey Through a Timeless Land and Wild Shores of Australia. Abell has worked as a photographer at the National Geographic since 1970. He was born in 1945 in Sylvania, Ohio, and learned photography from his father at a young age.
Entrance to the display is free with general paid museum admission. For more information, phone (02) 9320 6000 or visit www.australianmuesum.net.au.