ight has a special quality in Australia, says Mandy Walker. The 59-year-old cinematographer has traversed the country with her camera on films as diverse as the intimate, sensual and two mononymous Baz Luhrmann epics (). The light here is “stronger and more aggressive” Walker muses, a world of bold shadows and stark contrast. In the sun-blistered outback of South Australia, where she captured Mia Wasikowska on a gruelling solo journey across the country in , or in the sweeping vastness of the Kimberley, where Walker set the scene in Luhrmann's swoony period drama , there is also the sense of something beyond. “It really affects the way that you shoot,” Walker reflects. “On , I feel that in the images – the spirituality of the environment.”
