It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a vast open landscape when you live in a city. Now you can experience the Australia’s stunning landscapes in a photo exhibit titled Australia Through the National Geographic Lens by renowned National Geographic photographer Sam Abell.
From now till Jan. 28 you can view the exhibit, which features 38 images from Abell’s National Geographic book, Australia: Journey Through a Timeless Land at the Meridian International Center located near Meridian Hill Park. The Center promotes international understanding through the exchange of people, ideas and the arts.
”Recent immigrants and ancient cultures, austere deserts and luxuriant rain forests, epic grandeur and unpretentious good humor. National Geographic photographer Sam Abell has captured the diversity of faces and places that gives Australia its unmistakable allure,” according to the exhibit website.
The photos are larger than life size and framed in natural wood frames that look like driftwood. It’s quite awesome standing in front of the large photos. You almost feel like you are looking out the window and seeing the beautiful landscapes of Australia.
The exhibit includes photos of lakes, waterfalls, sand dunes and more. Abell took these photos over three years while he researched and photographed for the National Geographic book, Australia: Journey Through a Timeless Land.
“Every photographer who has worked at National Geographic for the better part of their career looks for a place that they can call their own, photographically and spiritually,” said Abell. “That place for me is Australia, particularly the remote northern part of the continent. I found there a landscape and a people that powerfully affected my photography and me. These photographs are the result.”
Abell has worked as a photographer in residence at the National Geographic since 1970. He was born in 1945 in Sylvania, Ohio. His father taught him photography. He received a BA in 1969 from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He is on the board of A George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and the Santa Fe Center for the Visual Arts.
Meridian International Center
Address: 1624 Crescent Pl., NW Washington, DC
Hours: Wednesdays - Sundays, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Closed National Holidays
Resource Links
o View online photo gallery.
o Explore Australia on National Geographic.
More about Australia from the National Geographic website
"An island continent located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia combines a wide variety of landscapes. The highest mountains are part of the Great Dividing Range that line the east coast from Cape York Peninsula south to the state of Victoria. Most people reside along the southeast coast, in cities like Melbourne or Sydney, because winds from the southeast release rain there—leaving the interior beyond the mountains arid or semiarid. West of the Great Dividing Range the landscape consists mostly of plains and plateaus; the Macdonnell Ranges near the country's center are an exception. The Great Artesian Basin provides underground water for a region that would otherwise be desert. Vegetation ranges from rain forests in the far north to steppes and deserts in the vast interior (which Australians call the outback). There are more than 130 species of marsupials, such as kangaroos, koalas, and wombats. The Murray-Darling River Basin, covering about 14 percent of the continent, helps sustain wheat and wool industries."
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