MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 19, 4.10pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A.

Three different Australian photographers, each with a different photographic style, discuss their lives and their work.

Tony Mott – Rock ‘n roll photographer. Born in the UK Tony migrated to Australia as a young adult, settling in Sydney. Mott is recognised as Australia’s premier rock photographer and a leading worldwide exponent of the craft. In a career spanning more than 30 years, his photographs have appeared in local and international magazines, newspapers, and album covers.

Atong Atem – Artist. Atong Atem is an Ethiopian born, South Sudanese artist and writer living in Narrm. Atem’s photographic practice includes textiles and video, and explores migrant narratives, postcolonial practices in the African diaspora, and concepts of identity, home, and liminal space. Atem has exhibited internationally at the Tate Modern, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Fotografiska Shanghai, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and more.

Adam Ferguson – Photojournalist & War Photojournalist. After growing up in NSW and studying photography in QLD, Adam moved internationally to pursue a photojournalism career, with a particular interest in war photojournalism. He worked in India, Afghanistan, Africa, as well as in New York, often for Times or the New York Times. Having survived some traumatic war situations, he returned to Australia to do a photographic survey of the Australian bush, published as a book titled Big Sky. This series includes rural life, shrinking small-towns, Aboriginal connection to country, pastoralism and the adversity of climate change.