A traditional wedding in the Djaradjin | Lombadina Bush Church between Belinda and Dominic Sampi. The place is a significant place of worship and social gathering. The Church and Presbytery is a bush timber framed detailed on the exterior with vertical corrugated iron cladding. The hipped roof is framed in bush timbers with corrugated iron cladding. The surrounding verandahs are roofed at break pitch. The interior ceiling lining in the church has exposed bush timber and paperbark lining. The floors are timber. The Cemetery has the remains of a low concrete block wall and evidences several graves with various markers. Mostly overgrown. ©Ingetje Tadros

Western Australia's largest indigenous corroboree is open to the public in Mowanjum, Derby every month of July. The corroboree gives the young people of the community's a chance to engage through dance, songs and art. Derby, Western Australia. A loose edit. ©Ingetje Tadros

Dreamtime Dancers is a community engagement 
project for young people in Broome, Western Australia, delivered through the medium of contemporary Aboriginal dance. The project is a direct response to the vulnerabilities of at-risk young people in Broome, promoting Indigenous culture and heritage, encouraging creativity and physical exercise and building self-confidence. ©Ingetje Tadros

A very small selection of the place where I live(d), Broome and The Kimberly, Western Australia. (I have thousands of images it's just a matter of time to get this in a proper edit). ©Ingetje Tadros

The Broome Cemetery has been operational since the late 1890s and is of significant historical interest to locals and visitors to Broome. The Cemetery data base is continually being updated with photos and information which will provide a reference for future years and assist with the ever-increasing number of genealogy requests. The layout of Broome Cemetery reflects the unique nature of the area and its strong sense of community. A walk through the cemetery highlights different “family” sections and there are a considerable number of names on headstones that can also been seen in Broome Street names. The Chinese, Japanese, Muslim and Jewish sections are testament to Broome’s rich and diverse cultural history. ©Ingetje Tadros

At contact, the Aboriginal economy was based on a stable, considered management of the environment and an effective organisation of labour. Males and females made different but complementary economic contributions. Women were primarily the gatherers of vegetables, roots, herbs, fruits and nuts, eggs and honey, and small land animals such as Snakes, Goannas. Men were the hunters of large land animals and birds and also co-operated to organise large-scale hunting drives to catch Emu's and Kangaroos. The collection and preparation of this wide variety of bush food required the development of an efficient, multifunctional technology, considerable practical skills, and its seasonal changes. Some plant foods were easy to collect but required complex preparation before they could be eaten. A combination of nomadic lifestyle and the regions sunny climate meant that there was no need to build substantial dwellings. The shelter was relatively used in permanent camps and was consisting in a frame work of saplings covered with a thatch of material locally available. (Aboriginal History Hunting and Gathering) Nowadays so many thing have changed and it becomes more difficult for people to hunt on a daily basis. A loose edit. ©Ingetje Tadros

Broome and Derby's Annual Rodeo's are action packed events where Station Workers and Aboriginal Communities have a chance to show off their skills. Saddle bronc, bull riding, bareback, steer wrestling, barrel racing, open breakaway roping and poddy rides, it's an authentic Outback experience! Broome, Derby, WA ©Ingetje Tadros

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following images may contain images of deceased persons. Today many Aboriginal artists of the Kimberley use boab tree nuts for carvings and paintings. When the dark surface of the boab nut is scratched away it reveals a light colour underneath. Large and regular shaped nuts are more popular but the smaller nuts are used, too. What is most important is the time of harvest. The nut has to dry on the tree, but needs to be picked rather than fall on the ground where it will most likely crack. Motives include highly detailed faces, usually the much lined faces of Aboriginal elders, and native animals like snakes, kangaroos, birds and others, set in local landscapes. Individual artists have individual styles, the preferred motives and the preferred nut shape vary. The colour, size and hardness of the nuts depends on the location of the tree... A carved boab nut is intimately connected to the region where both the artist and the tree grew up... What better souvenir to take home from the Kimberley? Every boab tree is unique. They have character and personality as you would expect of such an ancient creature. Some individual boab trees are 1500 years old and older, which makes them the oldest living beings in Australia, and puts them amongst the oldest in the world. Aboriginals used the giants as shelter, food and medicine. For the white settlers they served as easily recognisable land marks and meeting points, and not to forget as impromptu prison cells. (Text from Outback Australia travelguide) ©Ingetje Tadros

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following images may contain images of deceased persons. Elder Roy Hunter Wiggan 88-year-old teaching and passing on his knowledge on Totem making to Jeremy and Albert. Later that night a small corroboree was held in Middle Lagoon, Dampier Peninsula, Broome, WA. ©Ingetje Tadros

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following images may contain images of deceased persons. Nine police officers spend Christmas morning visiting disadvantaged families in Broome (Police & Community Youth Club Broome, Western Australia) 2010 and 2011. ©Ingetje Tadros

Bishop Matthew Gibney founded the Beagle Bay mission, developed in the land of the Nyul Nyul people; (Indigenous people were taken from their traditional areas and different parts of the Kimberley and put into Beagle Bay Mission.) This became a site for the Aboriginal people in 1890. ... In 1907, the St John of God Sisters began to run a mission school at Beagle Bay and in 1918 the famous church was opened. ©Ingetje Tadros

Cape Hillsborough National Park, approximately 45 minutes north of Mackay, QLD, is where you'll find rainforest meets the shoreline, volcanic headlands, eucalyptus forests home to koalas and kookaburras and prehistoric rock formations. Cape Hillsborough Beach, also know as Casuarina Beach, provides one of the most iconic Australian photo backdrops, the 'Roo on the beach' at sunrise. Wallabies and kangaroos scour the morning tide for mangrove seed pods, seaweed and coral sand dollars. ©Ingetje Tadros

Once the old area of Broome town around the marsh ringed by mangroves was full of old shacks. Each camp was named for its pearling company, and so this one is Morgan camp for the Morgans who were Pearling Masters. I spent an afternoon with the local kids who where playing at Morgan Camp. (give their mum a photo later on :)- ©Ingetje Tadros

An Outback experience of my friends travelling the Kimberley in 2014. ©Ingetje Tadros

I chose to walk because it felt right for me. I knew full well "easy" wasn't included in the itinerary. I walk into a web of the unknown and slowly watch the world around me shape itself into being. I can no longer walk past a grasshopper without admiring its genius construct or the cacophony of bird calls in my immediate surrounding. To walk the earth, for me, is to practice being deeply connected to the subtlety of every moment and how it changes and forms itself. This walk is like a marriage. When things get tough I'm not going to quit or choose something more comfortable and beautiful. I may reach the end of my walk and still wonder what this walk is about. (Beautiful words by Angela Maxwell) ©Ingetje Tadros

Cable Beach Polo is recognised as one of Western Australias major sporting and lifestyle events and Australias only beach polo tournament and happens only once a year in May in Broome, Western Australia. It attracts people from all over the world, players, sponsors, tourists, celebrities, media and general spectators. Cable Beach joins a handful of exotic locations such as Miami USA, Great Britain and Dubai to host beach polo but is perhaps the most remote location in which the sport is staged. Broome, WA. ©Ingetje Tadros

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