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Before and after the drought: how one Australian family farm sprang back to life - in pictures

Photographer Benjamin Wild has documented his family’s property during the harshest times – and then the relief of the rains

Somewhere in Benjamin Wild’s photographs of Gradgery Cemetery, there’s a metaphor of loss, despair and then hope that’s bursting to escape.

Wild, 40, is the youngest of four to have grown up on the farm that’s been in the family for six generations and which sits across the road from those gravestones.

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