Mark Thomson’s images in Settled Areas are about never giving up. “There’s a gritty determination to be found in the places and people… yet also a kind of grace and a generosity of spirit. There is an unlikely beauty to be found everywhere, even in the screeching of the galahs as they settle down for the night."

His photography and audio snippets are the products of decades of driving along dusty backroads and stopping to consider the vista.

Mark is the author of numerous books including Blokes & Sheds, Rare Trades, and Meat, Metal and Fire. He is also the creator of the ABC television project The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke.