Head On Festival – Black Saturday – An exhibition by Caroline Pankert

Black Saturday

On Saturday 7^th February 2009, southeast Australia was ravaged by the worst bushfires the country had ever seen. A series of raging infernos claimed 173 lives as well as hundreds of casualties, whilst wiping entire country towns off the map.

Black Saturday is a documentary portrait series, in which the Belgian photographer Caroline Pankert investigates and catalogues the effects of these bushfires in the rural Australian community of Traralgon South.

But rather than presenting the sheer magnitude of the damage, Pankert prefers to focus her lens on the detail. The photographs explore the intimate consequences of the fires as they are read through the indiscriminate traces they have left on people, property and animals alike.

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