This project tells a story – my story of travelling across the Australian continent for three months covering 21 196 kilometres by car and how I attempted to capture the ephemerality and authenticity of journeying. Although the photographs are a visual account of a personal experience, they also allude to universal issues related to sociology and politics.

Images of paths and roads create the central visual theme carrying the flow of the narrative but they also reflect the forceful Western concept of navigating through the land contradicting the attitude of the indigenous people of the Australian Outback, who perceive themselves to be an integral part of their natural environment which sustains them.

I wanted to find out if it is possible to create a sense of place through a collection of photographic imagery and explore how our perception of spaces and places is influenced by our respective cultural knowledge. As my perspective of the land is informed by Western European culture, the viewer will find references to visual traditions of Romanticism and the Arcadian ideal.