Australia’s Black Summer started the winter before. Fires broke out in August, unseasonably early, when the country was in the grip of drought. By the time summer rolled around, the country was dry as a chip and already burning. When record heat drifted in from the continent’s interior, those fires roared. For most, climate change had been an abstract concept, a looming threat that would manifest some way, one day, on an arbitrary timeline. But with the Black Summer it had arrived. Paolo Pellegrin's photos of the aftermath of the fires provide stark testament to this. See the story here:
Photos: @PaoloPellegrin
