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  • Photographer
    Anton Sur, Australia
  • Prize
    Bronze Winner in Photojournalism/Other

This is the outer suburbs of Melbourne, the very edge of the city's expanding body - the growth zone. Just a few years ago, this land was raw and unclaimed; wilderness stretching into the horizon. The city, driven by the forces of profit and migration, sent in developers to strip that emptiness and convert it into something predictable - the housing estates. Spreading like a virus, these suburbs devour the earth without regard for nature, or for the people who will live there. This series documents the edge where nature turns to suburbia.