“In the Folds of Hills” depicts a lifestyle that has now passed or rather a lifestyle that urban dwellers assume no longer exists. Yet this is a contemporary work with photographs taken between 2009 and 2013, making this story even more remarkable.
Here in this tiny rural community of Lima in northeast Victoria, around 100km’s from Melbourne, people live as they did before time was measured in bytes and self-worth equated to the number of ‘likes’ one received. Lima’s residents move to a rhythm and at a pace that is in direct contrast to the frantic hum of the 21st Century. And it is a somewhat magical experience to discover this tightly knit community.
