US photographic artists have endlessly pursued landscape and geographic photography, leading to history-changing snapshots like Adams’ The Tetons and the Snake River. Steven Manolakis, a US-to-Australia expat, already has numerous photography awards under his belt, despite his young age.

He negotiates his medium format camera from bush planes and helicopters to seize the raw grandeur of the Great Southern Land. Inspired by the quantum notions of the Existentialist philosophers, he captures the wide-frame view of marine habitats creating an original school of photography that can actually be called “meta.”