Melbourne-based photographer Abigail Varney captures the surreal beauty of the Australian Outback. Taken in the opal mining town of Coober Pedy and surrounding desert, the series is suffused with a strange dream-like quality that highlights both the bleak isolation of the landscape and resilient spirit of its inhabitants. See more images from “Rough & Cut” below.

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