Published: January 18, 2020
South Australian artist and volunteer firefighter CJ Taylor was recently deployed on a mission with his crew to the mid-north coast of NSW, where he was drawn to photograph the Rural Fire Service camp in the town of Glen Innes. Rather than documenting the flames, he was drawn to what he describes as ‘the things in between: base camp, the lengthy trips to the fire fields, the dry land and smoke haze that obscured the landscape for hundreds of kilometres’. One tactician made a telling prediction while he was there: ‘It will only go out if it rains or hits the beach.’ Taylor calls this response ‘Base Camp’
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