WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following images may contain images of deceased persons. Tadros’s, ‘This is My Country’ is a compelling look at people balanced on the precipice of life, who for the most part are disenfranchised, neglected, and often forgotten. “Her images, confronting but always compassionate, communicate the plight of Aboriginals in Australia but also in sharp contrast and present moments of hope. Her work stands out from other photographers who have documented Australia’s indigenous inhabitants because of her collaborative approach and becoming a stakeholder in the people’s lives she is documenting,” says, Dr Jack Picone, Visiting Assistant Professor, Visual Studies Department, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. To document Australia’s indigenous people, Tadros based in Broome Western Australia travels to remote regions of Australia’s vast and unforgiving outback, and spends time in Aboriginal communities. Ingetje recalls, “I witnessed a high incidence of alcoholism, domestic violence, general health issues, an alarming frequency of suicide - communities fractured and in distress. I documented sections of communities mismanaged by their governments, not fully understood by a wider aid community, and largely left unseen by the remainder of Australian society”. A voiceless and unseen minority cosigned to lives of quiet desolation. "One day I heard about a young boy, who was lost and who had alcohol syndrome, the whole community went out to look for him, they found him two days later, in a croc infested country where he had been attacked by a croc" and the stories about the suicides in the Communities, suddenly it just hit me and I knew I had to start documenting, the good and the bad and in the hope to give the Aboriginal people a voice as I feel strongly that the Aboriginal people are not treated with the respect they deserve as they are the Original Peoples of this country and there is still till this day so much disrespect and racism, when you sit with the people and hear their stories it becomes obvious how beautiful these people are, there connection with their land, their Country and their family which is something we all can learn from." Ingetje makes photographs that make visible and make heard the plight of the most exposed and vulnerable people in Australian society. Tadros’s, also reveals to us many of the moments that are often under represented in the documentation of Australia’s original inhabitants. The moments of community, family, nurture, spirituality, environment, story - telling and importantly, healing. Powerful and pervading, Tadros’s images, once seen, can’t be ignored and remind us of the power of documentary photography to question, communicate and debate the most pressing social issues facing society today. Most importantly, they remind us not to turn a blind eye to the suffering of our fellow man.

Kennedy Hill is an Indigenous community in the remote town of Broome, in the far North West of Australia. It along with approximately 100-150 Aboriginal communities in WA is part of a sweeping government policy of settlement closure and dissolution of Indigenous Australian communities. Closing down communities similar to Kennedy Hill is devastating for the people who live in them. It represents a physical, emotional, spiritual and painful disconnect for Aboriginal people from sacred land. I documented the Kennedy Hill community because it is representative of the widespread decimation of Indigenous peoples communities in remote Australia. The photographs here are evidential of a poverty-stricken people who have long endured systemic social and historical human rights abuses. The statics are alarming. Over seven percent of the Kimberley population is homeless, and a staggering ninety percent of this homelessness is comprised of Indigenous people. Indigenous people in the Kimberley and all of Australia’s remote communities are confronted with the physical loss of their communities. They are also confronted with cultural and spiritual appropriation. As confronting as some of my photographs are here, I hope that they will communicate the plight of the people in them. And act as a catalyst for debate and- and as an agent for social change – no matter how small. Awards: Winner Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism -Feature/Photo Essay- 2015. Winner Amnesty International Media Awards 2015, Photography Category Winner of the 2015 West Australian Media Awards - Best Feature Photographic Essay. Highly Commended at 2015 West Australian Media Awards. Finalist United Nations Ass of Australia Media Peace Awards 2015 Photojournalism Award cat. Finalist at 'The Last Picture Show' in the Cat. Photo Book- New York Photo Festival 2015 Exhibitions - Screenings: Exhibition Lead Awards, Hamburg 2016 Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia 2016 HeadOn 2016 Dysturb, Paris 2015 New York Photo Festival - The Last Picture Show - 2015 Seoul Int. Photo Festival 2015 Visa Pour l'Image - The best of photojournalism worldwide, France 2015. Screening of Kennedy Hill Digital display at The Louvre in Paris, part of celebrating The Exposure Award 2015 Ballarat Int. Foto Biennale Melbourne- Kennedy Hill in projections program - 2015 HeadOn Photo Festival Sydney 2015 - Kennedy Hill screening Publications: The book is published by FotoEvidence Press-USA Fairfax Media http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/photojournalist-ingetje-tadros-documents-indigenous-life-in-remote-kennedy-hill-20150123-12wvxw.html Pentaprism: http://issuu.com/pentaprismphcommunity/docs/pentaprism_magazine__8 Life Force Magazine, March 2015 http://www.lifeforcemagazine.com/ Photojournale http://www.photojournale.com/ Image 35 is hand selected for inclusion in the Documentary Collection of Exposure and is included in the digital display at the reception at the Louvre Museum in Paris 2015

Awards | Nominations received for Caged Humans in Bali: Nominated for the Prix Pictet 2015 United Nations (UNAA), Winner 2014, Best Photojournalism Award Lens Culture Visual Storytelling Award 2014 MIFA, Moscow International Foto Silver Award 2014 Category: Editorial-General news Published in: Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710425/Heartbreaking-pictures-Balis-dark-mentally-ill-people-locked-left-filth-families.html Beta Magazine #14, March 2015

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