Sifting through the ashes: Mallacoota residents after the bushfires - in pictures

Photographer and Mallacoota resident Rachel Mounsey documented the Australian bushfires that destroyed some 150 houses in her Victorian town and its surrounds. 'When the New Year's fire bore down on my town of Mallacoota I began to imagine the fire as a type of medieval dragon - heavy-footed and angry - coming towards us to destroy everything in its way,' she says. Weeks after the catastrophe, Mounsey sits with neighbours who lost their homes, and asks: how do you move on mentally when all you own has turned to ash? Continue reading...