100. Regeneration

It’s been a while now since the Australian fires of 2019-2020. The summers between have been cooler and quieter. This post is a photographic essay, longer than other posts on this site, and the photos are from 2020. They record the immediate aftermath of a fire, and subsequent regeneration, in an area in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

I went up along Hat Hill Road in January, a few weeks after the peak of the destruction. The entire area was covered in grey ash, and hot spots were still sm...