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  • Marlbatharndu Wanggagu | Once Upon a Time in the West explores histories and stories of Aboriginal stockmen, rural, and domestic workers on pastoral stations in the Pilbara during the 20th century. Focusing on the experiences of Banyjima, Yinhawangka, and Nyiyaparli people, the project is the result of an engaged and sustained collaborative partnership between the IBN Aboriginal Corporation and FORM. For the exhibition oral histories and audio will sit alongside photography and paste-ups by Jetsonorama (USA), a commissioned installation by Reko Rennie (Melbourne), and photography by Claire Martin (Australia).
  • Carol and Gary bathe in the hot spring. There is no access to public water in Slab City so the residents use the local hot spring, or the near by canal to bathe.
  • Aerial photograph of Tarawa Island, Kiribati at high tide.
  • The Inge Morath Truck Project
  • There is limited public electricity. Residential areas less affected by the earthquake receive intermittent electricity, usually for a few hours morning and night, although there is never a guarantee. Most electrical power comes from generators although the most common sources of light are bonfires and candles.
  • I witnessed the sweet point of traditional notions of masculinity such as leadership, courage, strength and devotion to work and family when I met this father and his sons. Self sufficient, honourable and poor, they live off the grid in the middle of one of Europes densest cities - Bucharest.
  • Creative self-expression is like air to some and in a conservative society that judges, marginalizes and excludes people who deviate from the norm, the suppression of one’s true self can be suffocating. Yip Yip - a performer, a faery, a lover and a pagan has healed years of depression and issues of self worth through playful and creative self expression. In this image, subverting traditional ideas of sex and faith are somewhat an incidental sideline to just having a fun romp in the garden in an terrifically scandalous outfit.
  • Tony lives in the Downtown Eastsidein the same building as his brother and sister in law. They have all been addicted to heroin for around 25 years. Tony lost his wife to AIDS 5 year ago. They had twin daughters who were born HIV positive and were taken away by the state immediately after birth. Tony is on the Methodone program, but continues to use heroin. Despite all the tragedies this drug has inflicted on his life he is still unable to quit. Here he eats cream pie I brought for him.
  • The Salton Sea, California was created in 1905 when the Colorado river levees broke. The floodwaters filled the area of the Salton Sink that previously lay below sea level and created the sea that remains today. The sea flourished attracting tourism, numerous resorts and a healthy environment for fish and bird life. Agricultural run off from the surrounding valleys has slowly polluted the water causing resorts to shut down and the massive die-off of fish and bird life. The sea still attracts over 400 types of birds and the odd curious tourist who will find great beauty in its abandon.
  • The entrance to a man made cave, hand carved over 30 years. Designed around a vagina, you enter through the birth canal in to the womb --‐ a multiple chambered section that house bats and phallic sculptures. It is strange and fecund and quite an amazing feat for a man now in his 70's.
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