Peter DOMBROVSKIS: Lake Oberon, Western Arthur Range, south-west Tasmania

2026 MAPh Photography Fair

Peter DOMBROVSKIS
born Germany 1945; arrived Australia 1950–1996
Lake Oberon, Western Arthur Range, south-west Tasmania 1988
pigment ink-jet print
unframed
28.7 x 22.7cm
courtesy of Liz Dombrovskis
From a limited edition print set for MAPh's 30th anniversary, edition of 7

Peter Dombrovskis (1945–1996)

'When you go out there, you don't get away from it all. You get back to it all. You come home to what's important. You come home to yourself.' – Peter Dombrovskis

Peter Dombrovskis was one of the world's foremost wilderness photographers. His powerful, reflective and deeply personal images of the unique Tasmanian wilderness had a lasting impact. His images changed the way Australians think about their environment by making remote nature accessible through images.

Through their use in environmental campaigns such as the ‘No Dams’ movement of 1982, some of Dombrovskis’s images have become shorthand for environmental concerns in Australia. Seldom in the history of photography has there been as clear an example of visual culture bearing such political sway.