The Morning After - Australia'S Black Summer Bushfires

• Photographer
  Jochen Spencer
• Agency / Studio
  Atraxarta
• Prize
  Honorable Mention in Editorial / Environmental

Days before Christmas, white ash settles across the fire ground and the eerie haze of smoke lingers amongst the burnt landscape. This haunting scene was captured the morning after an inferno burnt through the small rural town of Bilpin in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. It was the third time in one week that the area had been impacted by a firefront. 80% of the iconic Blue Mountains World Heritage Area was burnt throughout Australia's unprecedented Black Summer Bushfires. Millions of hectares of land was burnt across the country along with thousands of homes and the loss of 26 lives.