Between late September 2019 and January 2020, the whole world looked worriedly at Australia, while more than 100,000 square km were burning in what will be remembered as on the biggest bushfire crisis in the country's history. The fires started for different reasons, all of which are directly and indirectly related to human action: some were originally lit by arson, some were caused by climate change, all were stoked by the exceptional dry and warm winter and spring.
The photos here show the severe conditions in which we lived during the crisis, with smoke-covered skies, black sunsets, and a suffocating air. They are all taken during a two-month span in New South Wales, mainly in the greater Sydney area, near the Central Coast and in the South Coast.
