In 2003, Trent Parke began a road trip through his native Australia, a monumental journey that would last two years and cover more than 90,000 kilometres. Minutes to Midnight is the ambitious photographic record of that adventure, presenting a proud but unsettled nation struggling to forge its identity from different cultures and traditions. The book combines traditional documentary techniques with imagination to create a dark visual narrative, portraying Australia through a mixture of nostalgia, romanticism and unsettling realism. This is a record of an emotional rather than a physical landscape. It is a story of human anxiety and intensity that, though told from Australia, reflects a universal human condition in today's world.