One strand of John Austin's large format black and white forest photographs in south west of Western Australia is the flora images. These focus on showing the rubbish that is ignored or swept away for the clear felling of the native old growth forests by the timber industry.

Plants like Xanthorrhoea and Zamia are “scrub rolled” to make way for the clearfelling of the “target species --the karri and jarrah trees.

You can see the destruction legally wrought, and the protest against this ecological destruction, in a video made by Austin from scans of his still black and white images made between 1994 and 2013.

Forest Threnody from John Austin on Vimeo.

The notes and snapshots about Austins professional black and white photography can be found on his blog.