When I speak to Adam Ferguson, the photographer is in a caravan park in Broken Hill, a mining town in western New South Wales. He has been travelling through the outback, he says, driving “an epic amount of miles” in a last “mad dash” to take more images, including shots of recent bushfires and a heatwave-induced mass die-off of fish.
The works are part of the poetically titled Silent Wind, Roaring Sky photo series, which will feature in an exhibition at Somerset House in London and in a book to be published by GOST books next year. The title refers to a peculiar ambience in the vast, sparsely populated Australian interior. “There’s kind of an eerie quietness to it,” he says. “And the expanse of sky becomes incredibly loud and poignant.”
