A haunting picture of a ‘‘surfboard graveyard’’ at Garie Beach has won the people’s choice category at the Australian Life photo competition, part of Art and About Sydney.
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Sydney landscape photographer Rodney Campbell was looking for interesting rocks or trees when he instead stumbled on 1000 Surfboard Graveyard - a mammoth art installation by Minnamurra surfer Chris Anderson - in the early hours of December 1.
His photo shows 1000 broken boards, each lit with a candle, minutes before sunrise.
‘‘I arrived in the dark with two other friends,’’ Mr Campbell said.
‘‘We walked up to the beach and up the northern end - way away in the distance - we could see lights on the beach. We had no idea what it was. It was just kind of serendipity that we arrived and [Mr Anderson] happened to have his display there that night.’’
Anderson spent two and a half years collecting broken boards before he part-buried the pieces at Garie Beach - tombstone style - as a tribute to the tragedy of a broken board and a comment on the quantity of waste being sent to landfill.
He took a truckload of the broken boards into the Royal National Park site with the permission of authorities but by the next day - as per his agreement - they were gone.