Calumn Hockey (Australia) uses a drone to document environmental campaigners surveying the effects of forest clearance in Tasmania.
Calumn's composition contrasts a sole remaining tree against the devastation of the forest clearance below. The environmentalists framed in the image had climbed a Tasmanian oak gum tree to survey the damage after the old‑growth forest had been cleared for mining.
It is almost 50 years since protests against damming and logging in Tasmanian wilderness areas first made headlines in Australia and then across the world. Since then, environmentalists have continued to try to stop the logging of old-growth forests.
Although this protest is about mining, there are many threats to Tasmania's old-growth forest, the biggest of which is logging.
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Calumn is a self-taught photojournalist and videographer who shoots in a documentary style covering matters surrounding environmental and social movements throughout Australia. Over the past seven years, Calumn has primarily travelled throughout Nepal, Southeast Asia and New Zealand and spent time working in both the deserts of Central Australia and New Zealand's West Coast covering world-first expeditions.
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