Louise Faulkner, Backwater reflections (Landscape 2019)

Lake Pedder is a drowned lake, a huge water impoundment created in the 1970s through damming and flooding of the former Lake Pedder National Park, Tasmania. The original lake was by all accounts spectacular – pink quartzite beaches, glacial outwash waters and unique flora and fauna – and remnants of that landscape can still be seen. The backwaters of today’s Lake Pedder are off the main road; they are quiet and still. A haven for platypus and birds, the remains of trees and forest flood debris create angular reflections on the water’s surface. These images are inverted, a reminder of the buried, lost landscape beneath the glassy surface of the man-made Lake Pedder.

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