Cindy Rostron is talking fire. “Fire is everything,” the Kune, Dalabon, Rembarrnga woman says. “It is really smart. We can talk to [it]; we call out to it and it understands,” she continues. “When I was a kid, we always went camping and we always did traditional burning. We would tell our ancestors so they could help us to make the fire go the right way so we are safe.”
On the day of this shoot, a cloud interrupts the clear sky. Rostron, a rising model from Arnhem Land, whose almond eyes on her strikingly delicate