How I Captured the Devastation of Australia’s Fires in One Photo

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. A photograph that ran in The New York Times, of a house devoured by flames with a kangaroo in the foreground, has come to symbolize the destruction wrought by the wildfires in Australia. Matthew Abbott, a photographer based in Australia, was vacationing with his family the day he accepted an assignment from The Times and took the picture. He recounted how it happened.

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