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Beyond Reasonable Drought : Photographs of a Changing Land and Its People

Photographer: MAP Group
Foreword by: Don Watson

Beyond Reasonable Drought : Photographs of a Changing Land and Its People

Retail Price:	$39.95
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ISBN: 9781742110967

Format: Hardcover
Published: 1st November 2009

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"With a forward by Don Watson and essays by Martin Flanagan among others, this is a collection of more than 200 images taken by 38 photographers of the MAP Group. This compilation is about water, scarcity, resilience, despair and hope. Half of the royalties from this book go to Australian Women in Agriculture in recognition of its continuing support of rural communities."

Book description

There has been nothing like it in living memory. Theories about cycles and seasons struggle to explain it. It is beyond reasonable drought.

Early this century, a group of photographers crisscrossed the nation, and captured a seismic shift in the way Australians were living their lives. Caught in these photographer's lenses were the faces and the stories of communities caught in this shift. People whose lives were being transformed as the rains over much of Australia's bread basket and beyond stopped falling regularly and the land altered.

These concerned photographers formed Many Australian Photographers (MAP) Group with the intention of showing us all the true state of the nation - the resilience, the ingenuity, the despair and the hope of Australia - as we leave the safety of history and head into an unknown future.