Tag: drought
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wetlands (sort of)
Well Covid-19 pandemic has been and (more or less) gone, the River Murray has gone from drought to being in flood in the autumn of 2023, and I’ve made no further road trips to work on this project since 2019. There are no more planned for the next 6 weeks or so as Suzanne has…
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Photography in the Anthropocene
It was a welcome relief to come across pockets of habitat in the Lower Lakes and the Coorong National Park that were in a healthy condition, despite the lack of river flow during the Millennium Drought (1997–2009) in south-eastern Australia. These low flows happened within the proposed Anthroprocene period, which is a time when much of…
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Landscape loss + nostalgia
One of the frequent responses to the common experience of landscape loss in Australia’s industrial modernity –eg., salt ladened landscapes, dried out wetlands, low flows in our rivers, on-going land clearing and the loss of biodiversity in Australia—is that of nostalgia, or a yearning for what has been lost in the Anthropocene. The rivers used to flow with…
Nourishing Terrains 