More than 120 ‘Avenues of Honour’ were laid out during the Great War in Australia, Trent Parke’s (1971) native country. Those left behind planted a tree for each local soldier sent to fight in Europe. The Ballarat Avenue of Honour was the first. It consists of 3,912 trees, which are still maintained and replaced today. ‘Almost 65% of Australian soldiers were killed — the highest proportion of any Allied army. So the war was something very personal for Australians. I wanted to know how the landscape could bear witness to that.’

This story is part of a group Magnum project, The First World War Now.