WANDERING SPIRIT
It’s fitting that the day I speak to photographer Hillary Younger she’s just a few hours from jumping on a plane to head overseas, once again. There’s a distinct restlessness and wandering spirit inside the Tasmanian native that has defined her life and continues to define her photography.
We’re speaking over a crackly line from Younger’s new house in Hobart, her 30th move in as many years. The pending trip will be co-leading a photo workshop in the US, something that’s become more and more common as her reputation as one of Australia’s most talented landscape photographers has grown. It’s also something all the more remarkable when you consider she only began taking her image-making seriously in 2007.
EARLY DAYS
“I grew up in North East Tasmania in the bush, basically on the back of a horse,” she laughs.
“I rode before I could walk, but I quickly realised I wanted
