Robert Bropho Aboriginal Activist

Robert Bropho Aboriginal Activist

This is a photo of Robert Bropho and was taken at a protest in Perth, Western Australia.

Aboriginals were protesting against building on an Aboriginal sacred site. Robert Bropho was the organizer of the protest.

Ultimately the protest was unsuccessful and luxury units were eventually built on the site.

I had a lot of sympathy for the protesters as they were taking on the Government builders most of the media, police and other antagonists.

I also was more in agreement with what they wanted done to the site which was a park so people could go there. Luxury units are no use to me.

They managed to delay building for more than a year so they were quite effective in making their point. They lived in tents on site for that entire period.

This pic was not posed though I did ask if I could take the picture. I found him to have a lot of dignity. Though the press portrayed him as a bit of a buffoon.

Currently I think Robert Bropho is still in jail on what some people say are trumped up charges and a revenge on him for being a troublemaker. Others say he is guilty and should serve his time.

Pic was taken on a Pentacon six camera using Ilford XP1 film. I used this film to make sure I got reasonable images as this film has ( had ) a very wide margin for error in exposure.

I posted this pic before but that was from scan of a matt print. I have just found the negative and scanned that. The quality of the image from the negative is so much better I decided to repost the pic.

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