Mischkulnig has said he “set out to document the feeling and quality of what small-town Australia is. I don’t believe that Australians have comfortably settled into their environment and from this I sense a yearning for place”.
The result is a beautiful book filled with images of Australian landscapes that will seem outlandish to most Australians. Journalist Alan Attwood points out these are not images of Australia that we see in mainstream media accompanied by signing children in NapiSan white outfits (www.walkleys.com). Here is a collection of photos pointing out the marks people have left on remote landscapes. Mischkulnig's expert eye for detail picks out those marks which are most at odds with the natural surrounds - a loan McDonald's sign acts as a foreign flag post whose yellow and red is unnatural amongst the drab colours of the desolate landscape.
Mischkulnig's images are accompanied by an essay by celebrated novelist Tim Winton.
Martin Mischkulnig's book Smalltown will be available on Amazon as of the 1st of June.
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