Mining at the ends of the earth
‘Just taking pictures doesn’t necessarily float my boat. It’s the subject matter and experiences that do that.’
At his home in the Perth Hills, Hugh Brown has been on the phone, completing preparations for his next major overseas trip. In the past eight months he’s done hostile-environment survival training, meditation courses, self-defence training and complex risk assessments.
Basically everything he can do to ensure he comes back home alive.
On the day we spoke, he’d been tracking down people who could assist with first aid training in case he or people with him were to suffer any injuries.
Corporate mining photography has been Brown’s bread-and-butter work, and even that has physical dangers that can’t be ignored. But it’s his ongoing personal project, , that pushes
