Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve, Spring

For about five years I have been photographing box-gum grassy woodlands in the ACT, NSW and Victoria. Once common, these ecosystems have been reduced to small pockets amongst farmed land, along roadsides, reserves and in little tucked away cemeteries. I return to the same sites and shoot seasonally. I respond to ecologists and the landholders – their knowledge forms a collective story and shows me what I need to photograph. Ecologists have identified five different states in which these ecosystems exist depending on how they have been managed. My photograph represents State Five, revegetated areas.