Mildura Campus

Shanna Fortier

For as long as I can remember Australia has been on my "to visit" list. Now that I have made it here it is everything and more than I imagined it would be. Everything from sunrises at sculpture hill to long gruelling days in the darkroom has combined to make this experience a lifetime memory. The field trip through the outback opened my eyes to a whole new side of this country. I never thought that I would be as taken away with the vastness of the desert as much as I was. I go to school in a city and forgot what it felt like to be in a place that is not congested with buildings.

The inspiration for my collection came from my interest in the contrast between man and the landscape. The thought that humans can enter an undisturbed piece of land and still keep it preserved fascinated me. I tried to capture what man adds to the landscape here opposed to what he takes away from it where I live.

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