After battling cancer, Anna Nunn threw herself into documenting life in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges

Anna Nunn

Living on a remote cattle station in the far north-east pastoral district of South Australia, Anna (@adaroyphotography) also runs a small photography business.

We live right on the tail end of the Flinders Ranges. It’s a spectacular place and I feel very lucky to be living and raising my two children here.

My husband, Justin, manages the station, and I fill my days working alongside him, cooking for staff, pottering in my garden and chasing my seven-year-old Roy and his sister, Ada, who is three. When time allows I enjoy getting behind the lens of my camera and capturing our life and the lives of others around us.

I’ve always enjoyed taking photos. As a teen I was always the one carrying a digital camera on a night out — oh, life before cameras were built into our phones! Later, I pursued other avenues and did a degree in communication and media management, before I fell into a career in logistics. It wasn’t until my husband and I moved to a cattle station just after we married and were about to have a baby that I got my first DSLR camera and snapped a few pictures here and there of our life.

In 2021, while pregnant with my daughter, I was diagnosed with cancer. In recovery, I made myself a promise that I’d capture all the moments of my children growing up and the special life we get to live out here in the bush.

In 2023, I did a course with Lisa Alexander and fell completely in love with all aspects of photography, so much so that I decided to upgrade all my gear and launched my little business: Adaroy Photography last year. I focus on life in the outback: the characters, the events and the landscape.

Meg Batty

Meg (@megnutslens) originally comes from New Zealand but now lives in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

I have been in Western Australia for about nine years now, working on cattle stations, with no plans to move back to New Zealand.

I didn’t grow up working on farms and I was completely green when I started out on stations, but so many people helped and taught me along the way that now I can’t imagine myself doing anything different.

I love this lifestyle and living out on a station. I especially love being able to share that with other people through my photographs. I am definitely not an expert at photography and can be quite inconsistent when it comes to taking photos. I love it so much, but a lot of the time work and life stops me from capturing as much as I would like.

When I do have my camera in hand, I love taking photos of my nephews (when they stand still), mustering (when I get to be in the passenger seat), my fiancé (when he doesn’t see the camera) and the landscapes we drive through. I spent two years in the Kimberley and loved the landscapes and the lifestyle, but the Pilbara has always felt like home to me and I love capturing that in pictures.

What you see in these photographs are things that I love. That’s really what I try to use my camera to portray and hopefully that is what shines through in my images.

Bella Henning

Originally from Teelba in Queensland, 24-year-old Bella (@nannywithacamera) is currently based in Tamworth, New South Wales, where she loves to document her rural life.

One of my greatest joys is taking photographs, and it has been for as long as I can remember. I grew up on my family’s property with my three sisters and parents, and this has led to a career in agriculture that I find so very beautiful. I got my first second-hand camera when I left school, before heading to work on a station in the Kimberley.

That camera was my pride and joy. The poor thing didn’t get used very often because I was so scared of damaging it, but the few photographs that I did take, I will hold onto forever.

Since that first year I have taken many photos, but it didn’t take me long to learn that my favourite subjects are animals and kids. This has been quite suited to my career so far, bouncing between station work and being a nanny. The memories and moments that are captured in photographs will always be my favourite thing about taking them.

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