Check out another project from the Pacific region – this one going on in Papua New Guinea – in a settlement near Port Moresby called 8 Mile. 8 Mile Settlement project is a nice example of an increasingly popular approach to community development – using creative arts (painting, photography, storytelling and traditional weaving) to empower...
In 2008 I collaborated with Rachel Breunlin from the Neighborhood Story Project (based in New Orleans, Louisiana USA) and Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation (based in Derby, Western Australia) on a collaborative writing and photography project which resulted in the book Singing Out – Aboriginal Ladies Stories of the North West Kimberley. The project aimed at...
This week the AFI (Archivo Fotografico Indigena) came back from a 3 week summer vacation and they have hit the ground running making final preparations for a project they are participating in commissioned by Museo de Mujeres Artistas Méxicanas about diverse experiences of migracion. 5 women associated with AFI have been invited to develop...
In a previous post I mentioned that as part of looking at historical photos of the Kimberley region in the Photo Me project we were given access to images from the Tindale collection, in the form of ring binders with photocopies of hundreds of 3 x 5″ portraits. We were encouraged to show them...
Documenting the names of people in the AFI photos is not a priority here in Chiapas. Indeed, anonymity and confidentiality is a necessary part of the ethics of participatory photographic practice in the region. The naming of Indigenous subjects in photographic archives, has an entirely different meaning in a contemporary Australian context.
Photo Me Derby - now in the Side by Side Gallery The Photo Me Derby project was the first project I was involved with dedicated to collaborative photography in the Kimberley (the northern region of Western Australia). Photo Me Derby was a collaboration between Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation and Side by Side Community Project Consulting, and...
The primary purpose of my current trip to Southern Mexico is to spend some time working with the Chiapas Indigenous Photography Project, and their spin off project the Archivo Fotografico Indigena in San Cristobal De Las Casas. This is one of the longest running participatory photography projects that I know of (do you know...