Mallee Town explores the resilience, decline and quiet persistence of rural communities across the Mallee landscape. Through images of abandoned dwellings, rusting railway lines, empty civic spaces and concrete grain silos, the work reflects on the legacy of settlement, agricultural ambition, ecological reality and the gradual exodus from the land. Made over fourteen days and thousands of kilometres, the project is both a document of what remains and a personal attempt to understand a place connected to my own family history. These photographs are records of the rural landscape, but also reflections on memory, loss and the hopes of those who once built lives within it.