Endframe – “Jim Jim Falls” by Peter Jarver

David Tolcher

An enthusiast who enjoys having photography as an excuse to get out in to the wilds.

The year was 1988 and I was living in Sydney with my wife and kids enjoying a 2 year overseas assignment  to Australia. I was a hardened B&W photographer for all except the natural history work that I did. I had never been especially inspired by colour landscape work. Looking back it is easy to forget that this was before the time when Waite/Cornish/Noton rainmakers changed popular  landscape photography in the 90’s. It was largely documentary and quite literal in its presentation.

Unusually I remember the moment quite well,  going into one of the bookshops in George Street (probably Dymocks but my memory isn’t quite that good !) and there was a large colour poster on display drawing me to a new book launch by Peter Jarver. The poster was of Jim Jim Falls at sunset in full flow in the rainy season. The book was his second: ‘Kakadu Country’.