Lake Gairdner by Dean Sewell

Details

Retail price for the framed work is for pick-up from NERAM, Armidale. Shipping Australia-wide can be arranged and will be invoiced separately.

Retail price for unframed prints already includes shipping Australia-wide.

Year: 2023

Size: 110 X 76cm 

Medium: Hahnemuhle cotton rag

Description

Lake Gairdner is an endorheic salt lake roughly 440km north west of Adelaide. Measuring 160km in length and 48km wide, its salt layer is 1.2 metres thick in some places. It is also the only race track in Australia where land speed records can be achieved and home of Australia's Dry Lake Racers community. In 2003, a highly unusual rain event occurred on the first evening of the five day race meet, delivering 8mm of rain across its surface, postponing racing for three days and turning the lake into a Dali-esque, mirror-like surface. Due to the corrugation of the salt, ripples from disruptive forces refused to radiate outwards creating an even more surreal environment.

Biography

Dean Sewell has been a documentary photographer for 35 years, beginning his career with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1989. At the age of 24, Sewell became the youngest photographer to win the Nikon Press Photographer of the Year Awards in 1994. In 1996–1997 Sewell lived and worked in Moscow, Russia. On his return, he won the 1998 Nikon Press Photographer of the Year Awards. Sewell has won World Press Photo Awards in 2000, 2002, 2005. In 2009 and 2010 he was back-to-back winner of the Australian Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize. In 2020, Sewell won the Moscow International Photo Prize in the News Category for his coverage of the Black Summer Bushfire and in 2022 won best photographic essay in the Australian Walkley Awards. 

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