The longest environmental barrier in the world is Australia’s 5,614km Dingo Barrier Fence, a colonial artefact with an enduring ecological impact. This project traces its path across the continent from Barunggam Country in Queensland’s Western Downs to Wirangu Country on the west coast of South Australia.

Built between the 1880s and 1950s, it was designed to protect settler sheep farming from dingoes in the arid north and west. In doing so, it disrupted ancient migratory pathways and created two distinct ecologies on either side. Inside the fenced area, biodiversity declined sharply following the removal of the dingo.

The work explores extractive relationships with land and colonial legacy in the Australian landscape. Photographs are accompanied by soil chromatograms made from earth collected along the fence’s length, evidencing soil physiological and biological composition. In a country where landscape photography has often served colonial narratives, here the Earth itself becomes a collaborator in the image-making process.