"The work was made hurriedly over the extended summer and all profits from sales will go directly to Warriiors for wildlife who support wildlife and their carers. I don’t think it’s common knowledge that wildlife care in Australia is not only completely unpaid but also the carers receive little to no subsidies or support for the government. Given most carers are women, with a significant number over the age of 45, they balance employment, family and the realities of being at the frontline of wildlife care. Happy to raise any funds that can help 🖤🦘🐨 Persephone Rising responds to a shifting climate and a fraying sense of seasonal certainty. This year, the temperature has remained 2.3 degrees above average, and by mid-May, when frost would usually signal the arrival of winter, I am instead surrounded by dry earth and dying plants. Mornings are brittle, not damp. I realise I haven’t seen a spider web in the bushland for weeks. The weather, now a constant topic of conversation, is met with delight “Isn’t it lovely to still be so warm? But I experience it as quiet grief. Thousands of kilometres away, a genocide unfolds. We are told, politically, that it has no bearing on our lives here. But the atmosphere tells another story of disconnection, of heat, of collapse, of compounding loss. In this unsettled space, I turn to photography not as resolution, but as response." Morganna Magee
