In 2010 his search took him to the destination of the Northern Territory wilderness – in the middle of the Australian summer when the landscape reveals its fully beauty and the same time its misanthropic face: Heat combined with a humidity that makes the air thick to cut through. It is the original and the unadulterated that Ernst Hartig captures with his medium format camera, and with a level of detail that was only made possible by modern digital photography and which brings the terrific distinctiveness of the North Australian wilderness to a visual form.