Twenty Four Hours In The High Country

Alex Quinlan, Jess Marchbank & Luke Moran-Morris

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By Morwenna Murray "The ticking clock is a lie. It is a fabrication of time that moves forward, steadily, without missing or reorganizing a beat. We think this is how time works, but our brains perceive time very differently. When our brains receive new information, it doesn't necessarily come in the proper order. This information needs to be reorganized and presented to us in a form we understand. When familiar information is processed, this doesn't take much time at all. New information, however, is slower and makes time feel elongated."

- Adam Dachis, Lifehacker Some days will remain imprinted in your mind forever; time stretched so far that twenty four hours feels like a week or a month. A sweltering hot twenty four hours in Benella, Australia is one of these days, when four friends only recently met took to the High Country.

Visions of heat rising off the tarmac, a face in the wing-mirror, swimming naked in waterholes, abandoned houses dilapidated and parched from the

sun beating down and pockmarked Ned Kelly amour splayed on the dusty earth. Images of stopping off in desolate backcountry towns, stuck in a mining-boom time warp of wooden picket fences and Victorian calligraphy and eating Steak Pie in the Australian sun where gollywogs are still displayed in shop windows. This book envisions the sharp joy of new friends sharing their hearts and home in an unfamiliar land. Smiling faces and pure freedom as Mick Jagger cries 'Angie' on the car stereo, the car rolling up mountains and then back down again.

These images capture the fleeting perfection of those twenty-four hours, bottling moments to look back on. Starting at the haunting image empty carwash as the sun went down, and then all the way through to dusk again; our wind blown hair silhouetting against the sunset; an everlasting twenty four hours in the High Country been and gone.

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Some days will remain imprinted in your mind forever;

During the hot days of January 2014 in Victoria, Australia, four friends took a road trip to the mountainous High Country. This book illustrates these twenty four hours from three different photographic perspectives, where new friends explored the forests, water holes, gorges and abandoned farmhouses of bush-town Australia.

Published by Luke Moran-Morris, London, England, Summer 2014 Š Luke Moran-Morris 2014

luke@moran-morris.co.uk