Stu Murphy Australian Photography Awards recipient

Clarence Valley creative Stu Murphy has received an award in the Australian Photography Awards (APA) Aerial category.

The aerial category shows the majesty of our earth, its landscapes and cityscapes from perspectives above and beyond. Through his aerial photography, Stu combines his passions for environmental science and the arts, encouraging his audience to consider the contributions that our region’s wetlands make to our greater planet.

“My aerial photography has a story which inevitably involves human interference in the landscape in some way. An interference that in some photos is obvious to the eye such as a fence line and some more difficult to detect like changes in soil chemistry triggered by altered hydrology. The interference can result in stark contrasts in vegetation within an image or crazy intense colours coupled with seemingly absurd surface textures.”

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