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For the past year I've been returning to the Bexhill Quarry on the outskirts of Lismore documenting the people and ecosystems within its parameters. The location, with its aqua blue water nestled under towering sandstone cliffs, is an abandoned brickworks quarry that has become a popular swimming destination for both locals and tourists.
The quarry serves as a constant backdrop to an ever-evolving microcosm, bearing witness to people coming and going, the flora blooming and dying, and the landscape shifting and changing – evoking a sense of 'place' as temporal and rhythmic in a more-than-human world.
This is a portrait of local boy, Brody, in the water.
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