The ‘Top End’ is a broad canvas, stretching across the NT, WA and QLD and, depending on your vantage point, also inclusive of Australia’s northern neighbours: East Timor, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea for example. Onto this broad canvas lies a myriad of lives and landscapes, layers of history and drama both epic and everyday. How we see or understand this region and its people is largely the challenge of the photojournalist, charged with capturing the sense of a real-life character or event through the lens of their camera and their readiness to put themselves ‘there’.
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA)
2 May to I June, 2014
Darwin
Ed Wray, image from Monkey Town series
Courtesy the artist
