Peter Annand’s photographic practice centres on the interface between the spaces occupied by people and the spaces occupied by other species – often the same geographic places, seen from different perspectives.

The series Fig Trees 2006 includes ten photographs of fig trees in and around Brisbane.
For some of these trees, Brisbane now occupies the place where their species has evolved over the past 100 million years.
For others, an interesting journey has occurred: early in their evolution, the land they were growing on separated from what is now Australia and drifted north to become the Indian subcontinent. Comparatively very recently, these trees returned in the luggage of British Empire officials transferred from India to the colony of Queensland.

Peter Annand is president of the Queensland Centre for Photography and is undertaking a Master of Visual Arts degree by research at Griffith University.