Photographer Leah Kennedy, who lives in Perth, the biggest city in Western Australia, set out to document the region's countless salt lakes. (From 2018)
The salt lakes predate human settlement, but over the past hundred years so-called "secondary salinization" has made the lakes’ natural chemistry even more extreme. These conditions also produce lakes that, when viewed from above, throb with extraordinary shades of rust, lemon yellow, pink, lavender, and bright green.
Kennedy captured aerial images of the lakes from a small Cessna flying about 5,000 feet above the ground. If you didn't know what you were looking at, you might think they were elegant works of abstract art. "Salt has both negative and positive associations," she says. "From the agricultural point of view, salt is not a good thing, but on the flip side of that, salt lakes can be quite biodiverse places.
, humans are usually absent. "I wouldn't say I've purposely gone out of my way to exclude humans," she explains, "it just seems to be what I gravitate towards. It adds a surreal aspect to the images, which appeals to me. You question whether they're real or not."
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