In 2003 Trent Parke began a road-trip around his native Australia, a monumental journey that was to last two years and
cover a distance of over 90,000 km. Minutes to Midnight is the ambitious photographic record of that adventure, in which
Parke presents a proud but uneasy nation struggling to craft its identity from different cultures and traditions. Minutes
to Midnight merges traditional documentary techniques and imagination to create a dark visual narrative portraying Australia
with a mix of nostalgia, romanticism and brooding realism. This is not a record of the physical landscape but of an
emotional one. It is a story of human anxiety and intensity, which although told from Australia, represents a universal
human condition in the world today.
Minutes to Midnight
von Trent Parke
