WILD LIGHT: THE PHOTO BOOK MORE THAN FIVE DECADES IN THE MAKING
A NEW photography book seeks to share the vulnerability and beauty of Tasmania’s wildest places.
Tasmanian landscape photographer Grant Dixon’s newest book Wild Light is, like his previous publication, entirely self-published, and the result of more than five decades exploring the Tasmanian wilderness.
“Wild Light evolved from the way I view and understand landscapes,” says Dixon.
The new book, which launched in November but can be ordered now, is an impressive stand-alone volume but also a companion piece to the photographer’s 2020 photobook, Winter Light.
The trained earth scientist says while the images in Winter Light explored Tasmania’s alpine regions in winter, he was keen to also showcase other aspects of the landscape; Tasmania’s coast, cloaks of vegetation and rocky mountains, all in the grand Tasmanian tradition of landscape photography.
After a process that started with Dixon selecting many of his favourite images along with others he thought ‘had merit’ during a trawl of his Tasmanian image catalogue, the photographer worked with his designer to settle on layouts that capture new and unique angles of the island-state.
The result is 95 stunning images in a 128 page book.
“This book has really been evolving for a very long time. In fact, the oldest
