Mungo_02

I’ve always been fascinated with human history, lifecycles and the passage of time and
nowhere is this better illustrated than at Lake Mungo where you literally have the footprint of
man in the landscape that goes back millennia. Ice age human footprints dating back 20000
years have been uncovered here.
After each rain freshly exposed bones of man and beast clearly depict the cycle of life and
death.
I was drawn to Lake Mungo by the story of Mungo Man and Mungo Woman, the site of the
oldest ritual cremation in human history. As a photographer I was drawn to graphic nature of
the landscape, which ultimately influenced my decision to print in black and white.