The Other Australia? It's still out there. The landscape and people of the interior, and the extraordinary sights of make-do, bush art and human whimsy scattered across the Island Continent are still very much a part of the national consciousness.
For more than two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman explored the half-forgotten expanses that exist in reality as well as myth, returning with thousands of pictures and volumes of notes. Distilled through a filter of reflection and memory, 'Local Colour' is the rich and varied essence that remains.
Award-winning novelist Tim Winton adds his own perspective in a series of vignettes, and together with Bill Bachman they have ranged far and wide, along the way mining rich veins of local colour.
Contains full-colour photographs.
