Behind the photographs
The stories around the images.
A photograph holds a fraction of a second. The story around it can stretch for decades. This archive returns to photographs from the years behind Learning to Lean Back and opens out the people, fieldwork and places around them.
Queensland · 1976
Mon Repos
The first wildlife fieldwork: night patrols, nesting loggerheads and the beginning of a lifelong fascination with turtles.
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Great Barrier Reef · 1979
Raine Island
A remote coral cay, tens of thousands of turtles, seabirds filling the sky and five weeks beyond the reef.
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Egypt · 1981
Sinai
Desert, distance, Bedouin hospitality and a different kind of silence.
Read the story →The archive will grow to include further places and photographs from the memoir years, including Heron Island, Jersey, Europe and Binna Burra.