Peter Ogden, Ghost Tree (PLACES 2021)

Australia has become a battleground for climate change, to which the 2020 bushfires can attest. Combine that with out-of-control logging and the trees, our once mighty living guardians, are disappearing at a shocking rate. I have started taking images of these giants, like this one in the Garland valley, NSW, before they fade completely and turn into ghosts…

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