Kennedy Hill { 12 images } Created 18 Feb 2015
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
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
