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Finalist Foto Evidence Book Award 2016
Esther Yumbi having breakfast in her home in Kennedy Hill. Due to excessive alcohol consumption she has been diagnosed with diabetes and is now being treated with dialysis in Perth Hospital 2300 km away.
Many members of Aboriginal communities are traumatised by events from the past and for not being recognised. And for that, self-medication in the form of alcohol, cannabis, gambling, violence and amphetamines leads to health problems, unemployment, sexual and physical violence, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, etc. until the circle breaks, as in people committing suicide, ending up in jail or just surviving till the end.
Broome, Western Australia.
©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
Many members of Aboriginal communities are traumatised by events from the past and for not being recognised. And for that, self-medication in the form of alcohol, cannabis, gambling, violence and amphetamines leads to health problems, unemployment, sexual and physical violence, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, etc. until the circle breaks, as in people committing suicide, ending up in jail or just surviving till the end.
Broome, Western Australia.
©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex