Jerusha McDowell, For the bushmen love hard riding... (DOCO 2023)

From a photo essay documenting a ride with friend and bushman Mark Swan. Part of an ongoing body of work seeking to capture the love and knowledge of the high country, and the extraordinary horsemanship and bushcraft still held by a few. Men like Mark offer a link to an important part of our cultural history. Stockman no longer roam cattle across the Australia's high country. But there are those for whom the high country on horseback is more than a poetic past. It's a way of life.

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