Beyond the fog, we see public housing and powerlines. A palm tree blows in the wind outside a white fibro house. Two mattresses are leaning against a wooden fence. There are broken bicycles and broken windows.
Sporting long braids, tracksuits and Gucci caps, a gang of rappers have come home to Mount Druitt, in Sydney’s west. Hulking and charismatic, J Emz stares down the barrel of the camera and spits, “I come from Mounty — that’s home of the brave.” Black and white images of Western Sydney romanticise the disarray that energises them. “Out here we at war with the cops like Brax, but this ain’t Home and Away.”