Otway Journal - Coming Back to Earth

Although I’m known as a photographer recording people and place, sometimes creative ideas demand different forms of composition. This series of collage was inspired by National Gallery of Victoria magazines someone gave me where pre cut strips of predominately Australian images were glued in sequence from the bottom up to create a landscape around a subject matter – except for ‘faces’ where the subject is also in the landscape.

Unlike collage, our planet can’t be fixed by a bit of cut and paste. What the world needs now is economics that respects people and nature, where the value of the environment is in its preservation not destruction. Debra Chant