Kennedy Hill edited version { 68 images } Created 8 Dec 2014
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 Western Australia 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:
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Winner Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism -Feature/Photo Essay- 2015.
Winner of Amnesty International Media Awards 2015, Photography Category
Winner of the 2015 West Australian Media Awards - Best Feature Photographic Essay.
Highly Commended at the 2015 West Australian Media Awards.
Finalist in the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards 2015 Photojournalism Award category.
Finalist at 'The Last Picture Show' in the Cat. Photo Book- New York Photo Festival 2015
Exhibitions - Screenings - Kennedy Hill:
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Dysturb, Paris 2015
New York Photo Festival - The Last Picture Show - 2015
Seoul International Photo Festival 2015
Visa Pour l'Image - The best of photojournalism worldwide-Perpignan, France 2015. Screening of Kennedy Hill
Digital display at The Louvre in Paris, part of celebrating The Exposure Award 2015
Ballarat International Foto Biennale Melbourne- Kennedy Hill in projections program - 2015
HeadOn Photo Festival Sydney 2015 - Kennedy Hill screening
Publications:
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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/
Digital display Louvre Museum in Paris 2015
©Ingetje Tadros
It along with approximately 100-150 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia 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 of Amnesty International Media Awards 2015, Photography Category
Winner of the 2015 West Australian Media Awards - Best Feature Photographic Essay.
Highly Commended at the 2015 West Australian Media Awards.
Finalist in the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards 2015 Photojournalism Award category.
Finalist at 'The Last Picture Show' in the Cat. Photo Book- New York Photo Festival 2015
Exhibitions - Screenings - Kennedy Hill:
------------------
Dysturb, Paris 2015
New York Photo Festival - The Last Picture Show - 2015
Seoul International Photo Festival 2015
Visa Pour l'Image - The best of photojournalism worldwide-Perpignan, France 2015. Screening of Kennedy Hill
Digital display at The Louvre in Paris, part of celebrating The Exposure Award 2015
Ballarat International Foto Biennale Melbourne- Kennedy Hill in projections program - 2015
HeadOn Photo Festival Sydney 2015 - Kennedy Hill screening
Publications:
-----------------
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/
Digital display Louvre Museum in Paris 2015
©Ingetje Tadros
