Alasdair Foster: Disquietude

Alasdair Foster, is an international curator, art consultant, former director Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and current Asia Pacific Photoforum ambassador.  

Many Australians have an edgy relationship to the land, with two-thirds of the population living in the seven largest cities, all situated by the sea.  The continental centre is vast and harsh.  It is perhaps because of this disquietude that, while Australia has some of the most dramatic scenery on the planet, landscape is rarely the subject of art photography.