Merri Creek

Once home to indigenous Wurundjeri people, the native vegetation and wildlife of the Merri Merri, or Merri Creek in Melbourne, Victoria, has suffered greatly since the arrival of the first British colonists in Australia.
Slowly recovering from years of heavy industrial pollution, the re-established native vegetation was hit hard by major flooding in January 2011. Taken from an ongoing body of work aiming at investigating the shifting borders between wilderness and man-made environment, this image pictures the intense power of untamed natural growth around long lasting remnants of interfering human life.