Ben Belle, Faces of the 2019 BushFires (PORTRAIT 2023)

This series was commissioned for a project documenting the stories of people impacted by the 2019 Bush fires that raged across the East-coast of Australia. Jack O’Reilly in his fire bunker, which he built to protect his family in the aftermath of the fires. Meredith Stanton, a life long environmental activist whose house was heavily threatened by the blaze that swept through her woodland property. Jimmy Malecki, who fought to protect the grave site of his late partner from a raging blaze on his property.

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