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Australia
Big Stories, Small Towns
On the theme of documentary made in close collaboration with communities check out the Big Stories, Small Towns project that happened in Port Augusta, South Australia. Two experienced film makers lived and worked in Port Augusta for several months in 2008, producing a series of films about community stories. The material is only available online... »
Fictionalised Reality – new works by Urban Theatre Projects
Urban Theatre Projects (UTP), originally founded as Death Defying Theatre (way back in the ‘80’s) is a professional theatre company based in Bankstown (Sydney, NSW). Their tag line is ‘Stories of Contemporary Life‘ and they make new theatre works that reflect such stories and images of contemporary Australian life, with a focus on people... »
Ethnography through Art
December ‘09 brings to fruition two exhibitions about the interesections of ethnographic and art making practices. In Philidelphia USA, Ethnographic Terminalia opens on December 4th at the Metafactory, and on the other side of the Pacific ocean Interventions – experiments between art and ethnography is being held from 9 to 11 December at Macquarie University... »
Journal articles on Digital Story Telling practices in Australia
Check out this edition of the online Journal of Community, Citizen’s and Third Sector Media and Communication (3CMedia) for some recent articles about a range of DST projects in Australia, including one on the Pelican/Hopevale Digital Story Telling Project. Papers are based on selected presentations given at the 5th annual Making Links conference, held at The... »
Youth learning and the arts -new research from Australia
Valuing arts and creative practices as pathways to learning – especially for young people – has more advocates in the USA than in Australia. My last post about the Neighborhood Story Project is an example of a project that has a partnership with a high school to engage young people in creative activity (in... »
A bit about Maya’s work with participatory visual research methods
Following on from thoughts about the 1st International Visual Methods Conference, here are some reflections on participatory visual research methods I’ve been using. For several years I have been collaborating with Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation (based in Derby, Western Australia) doing collaborative research and evaluation of their community development programs – which focus on supporting... »
Women’s stories in women’s words (and pictures…)
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 documenting... »
More on the Tindale collection and portraiture style in Kimberley projects
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... »
What’s in a name?
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 Project
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 happened... »