Country is a term used by First Peoples in Australia for the lands, waterways, seas and cosmos to which they are connected: Ancestral ties to a place, the living cultural presence of that place, and a complex relationship between land, language, family and identity. Accompanying the PHOTO Australia exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2025, On Country: Photography from Australia places First Peoples' practice and relationality at its core and brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists who bear witness to the visible and invisible aspects of being on Country, exploring old and new relationships between Country and colonialism, community and identity today. In contrast to photography's early use in Australia as a tool of ethnographic documentation, the artists embrace it as a medium for truth telling, self-determination and collaboration. It features Tony Albert and David Charles Collins, Ying Ang, Atong Atem, Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, Maree Clarke, Michael Cook, Brenda L Croft, J Davies, Liss Fenwick, Adam Ferguson, Robert Fielding, The Huxleys, Ricky Maynard, Lisa Sorgini, Tace Stevens, wani toaishara and James Tylor, with texts by Kelli Cole, Pippa Milne, Brendan McCleary, Kimberley Moulton and Elias Redstone. The cover is a colour photograph of a person standing on a rock holding a target-like shield above a desert plain with vehicles in the foreground.