Australia’s countryside, deeply and richly scarred by the human presence shows the marks of sweat and toil, of lives and generations, of triumphs and failures and of enterprise often slowly decaying with time.

These beautiful images captured by Andrew Chapman in The Farm are glimpses of the past amidst the reality of the present.

They are an evocative record by one of Australia’s most acclaimed photographers of an ever-changing landscape.

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