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Wild swimming – an introduction

08 Oct 2020

Fraser Johnston is a filmmaker and Emmy-nominated Director of Photography based in Hobart. He specialises in natural history, science and documentary storytelling. He works commercially under the name Spectral Media and has worked has worked on...

Tasmanian Voices

Fraser Johnston

by Fraser Johnston

08 Oct 2020

Fraser Johnston is a filmmaker and Emmy-nominated Director of Photography based in Hobart. He specialises in natural history, science and documentary storytelling. He works commercially under the name Spectral Media and has worked has worked on...

Wilderness

Push Day

by Fraser Johnston

31 Aug 2020

Push Day is the story of a cave diving expedition to an unexplored region of Australia’s deepest cave. Pushing is a term used by cavers to describe the act of going beyond the mapped areas of the cave to find new areas. These kinds of expeditions...

Wilderness

Deep, dangerous and unseen

by Fraser Johnston

28 Aug 2020

We are walking through the forest, along the ancient tramway where bullock teams once hauled the timber used to build colonial Hobart. Here and there, ghosts are visible through the undergrowth: we see a collapsed brick wall covered in moss; an old beer bottle, half buried in the forest floor; a giant tree stump, notches cut by the rough hands of convicts. Ferns reach out from the overgrown verges and brush our faces with the rain clinging to their fronds. My pack, filled with lead weights and diving equipment, pushes me down into the muddy hollows that will one day fall through to join the giant cave system beneath our feet.