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Devastation

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What happens when you see something so devastating it leaves a indelible black mark on your soul?

Do you stay quiet or do you clear your throat and raise your voice? I am not an environmentalist nor am I politically minded, I’m only a photographer who feels I have no choice but to raise my voice.

                         

Devastation is a series of aerial images that explore the devastation of a landscape laid to waste by the impacts of man. What once was a thriving freshwater ecosystem of Melaleuca swampland is now a barren expanse of dead trees and hyper saline water – simply a graveyard of bleached and stricken tree trunks.

  A cocktail of rising sea levels, changes to cyclonic and monsoon patterns and the impact of feral buffalo has resulted in pushing saltwater further from the coast into its freshwater river systems. The phenomenon was first documented in the 1950’s but has escalated rapidly since the 1980’s. What was initially thought to be the impact of the hard-hooved feral water buffalo on a fragile ecosystem now appears to be more closely linked to climate change as changes to cyclonic and monsoon patterns have been more pronounced since the 1980’s.

The project was captured in the Northern Territory near the chain of freshwater billabongs known as the Mary River, not too far from the western edge of Kakadu National Park.

If emissions continue to rise, modelling by the CSIRO from 2017 shows that almost half of Kakadu’s freshwater wetlands could meet the same fate and be inundated within 50 years. Kakadu is Australia’s largest, one of the most ecologically important and spiritually important regions in Australia. Home to over one third of the species of Australia’s birds. Saltwater inundation could have drastic repercussions for biodiversity not only in Kakadu, but across northern Australia.

I hope that my project of the dead forest can offer but a glimpse into the future similar low-lying coastal areas along the Top End coast, which are most vulnerable to rising sea levels.

Do we want Kakadu to suffer a similar fate?

 

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Australian Photography Awards

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I was recently given the super cool news today that one of my images have been shortlisted in the Environmental Category of the Australian Photography Awards!
As many of you may know, I’m pretty passionate about the environment, and as a long-time aerial photographer I’ve witnessed many examples of how we are altering the earth by it’s use as a resource - a very relevant and complex issue given how much of Australia’s economy is built on such resource extraction processes. So much of it happens out of collective sight in remote areas and I feel it’s important to bring it to light to have more conscious conversation about our choices and decisions around sustainability and ecological balance and the legacy we are leaving for the future.
The image that was awarded was of a complex ecological issue called salt water inundation - a very real threat to much of the low lying freshwater billabongs across Northern Australia - you can read more about it here.
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Australian Photographic Prize 2022 - Finalist

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I'm thrilled to share that I was announced as a finalist in the inaugural Australian Photographic Prize Print Awards in Melbourne in September 2022. 

I put my hat in the ring with some prints and was super stoked to manage Finalist in the Landscape Category behind industry legend Tony Hewitt, with my other four prints being Semi Finalists as well across both Landscape and Nature categories. Being my first print awards, it was fantastic to see art come to life in its carefully crafted print form in ways that it simply cannot as pixels on a screen. And the absolute buzz of watching my prints be judged in a room of live judging  - oh man, such as intensely beautiful atmosphere!!! What a learning experience!

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