Freight Hopping

• Prize
  Gold in Press/Feature Story, 2nd Place winner in Press
• Photographer
  Jacob Wallwork, Australia

The act of surreptitiously riding freight trains, know as "freight hopping" has been a source of transportation and adventure for many years but due to harsh penalties and increased security measures the practice has become much less common today.

A small and secretive community of freight train riders still exists. Late last year I followed two “freight hoppers” for 3 days as they traveled across the desolate Nullarbor Plain stretching over 2500km from Perth to Adelaide in Australia.