Page 11 - Tropic Magazine Issue 33
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TROPIC • UP FRONT
Scene Around Tropic profiiles an amazing image from the Far North
Q&A with photographer Phil Schouteten
I love this shot because ... The landscape looks alien, as if shot on another planet. I also love how the random shapes of the mini lagoons are cut by the man-made road, almost like a vein running across the earth. MORE: @phischcreative
Tell us about the striking red road This particular road takes you from Aurukun to ‘Back Beach’, where locals go fishing and hunting for akul, a mangrove shellfish. There were recent showers, turning the red dust into the bright red
in the centre? colour you see.
videos for the Ngan Aak-Kunch Aboriginal Corporation. Recently, I spent a couple of weeks on the road with TV personality Aaron Fa’Aoso, documenting various art centres and artists from 12 different communities between Cairns and Seisia – driving over 5000 kilometres!
October 2020 in Aurukun, Cape York, What were you working on in the Cape? That shot was taken at a time I was working on creating cultural awareness
When and where? on Wik country.
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