Håkan Ludwigson’s images showcase the brutal beauty of Australia’s cattlemen and women. Shot in the 1980s and initially unappreciated for being too graphic,they form an uncompromising study of outback life and the individuals who pursue it“Thirty years have passed but I still have such vivid memories of all of you. What turns did your life buy? How do you look back on those dusty years?” asks the photographer Håkan Ludwigson of the men and women who appear in his unusual book, Balls and Bulldust. The photographs were captured in the 1980s while Ludwigson and his assistant spent several months living among cattle ranchers in Australia’s Northern Territory. They advise the tale of the unforgiving conditions, or the exhausting work and the enigmatic charm of the outback – but more than anything they advise the tale of the individuals for whom such an existence was so compelling. [br]Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com