Timor
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East Timor Sept 2000: Widows in a sewing co-operative run by an NGO reflect on their lives since the UN sponsored referendum, and the violence that occurred throughout the country.
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East Timor Sept 2000: A young girl watches the photographer in Suai, East Timor. Suai was the site of a massacre by pro Indonesian malitias after the UN sponsored referendum.
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East Timor Sept 2000: A young boy sells hard boiled eggs to UN staff outside the ‘Hello Mister’ supermarket in Dili, East Timor after the UN sponsored referendum.
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East Timor Sept 2000: Young people collecting shellfish off the beach in Dili, East Timor after the UN sponsored referendum.
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East Timor Sept 2000: An old man and his prize fighting bird in Dili, East Timor watch people pass by. The tiny country was racked with violence by pro Indonesian malitias after the UN sponsored referendum.
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Security was the main concern I had before embarking my journey to East Timor. I had been eager to assist in the installation of solar systems in a country in desperate need of infrastructure, but in the month leading up to my visit it seemed that Timor was again revising the ‘troubles’ that have plagued its independence. Notionally aware – having travelled through Turkey, Indonesia, and the Middle-East against the advice of the Australian Government – that insecure locations are typically geographically constrained, and one need only avoid war fronts (and five-star hotels), I was generally happy to continue my ‘mission East Timor’. However, when it arose that much of the conflict was occurring in the very region that I was headed, and that after a vehicle was attacked en route to Viqueque the UN had ceased driving through the region in favour of using helicopters, I re-thought my itinerary. I was assured that Dili and the surrounding areas were all stable; consequently my activities focussed on this region, though – as it arose – things seemed to have settled in Viqueque by the time I arrived. Following, then are some interesting insights about the country of Timor Lorosae (translation: where the sun rises) – whatever you call this country, it matters not , for the word Timor itself means ‘East’. You can read the whole story in pieces across some my images of timor, or all at once on my Writing
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Head detail of a Timor Python (Python timoriensis) from Flores island.
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Travelling in Timor-Leste with a gang of kids, orphans from the civil war. Nazarello would play hide and seek with the camera. Eventually it dawned on me that I could frame an ‘empty’ shot and he would suddenly appear in it, from out of nowhere, often with a fine understanding – somehow – of my composition. I gave him the camera and he took some of the best shots I’ve seen.
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In the mountains above Maubissie in Timor-Leste I stayed in a hut with some of the poorest people in the world. Tia was proud and dignfied, and, although unwell, worked ceaselessly to feed her family. I framed and gave her this photo. On dry days she puts it outside her hut for others to see.
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High in the mountains of Timor-Leste
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From Christo Rei, a beach just outside Dili.
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As the sun sets over Ataúro Island young Timorese search for shells, which they make into bracelets and necklaces to sell to tourists. Many of these kids are orphans, and homeless. They struggle to survive on less than a dollar a day.
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Two of my mates coming out of a morning fog. On my tour of East Timor in 1999, This would of been taken with one of the original digital cameras where it had a 3/4inch floppy disk in the side. Ground breaking technology at the time.
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In a village just outside Maubissie, in Timor-Leste.
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Three of my students at Arte Moris, a free fine arts college in Dili, Timor-Leste, ready to participate in the 2009 Independence Day march through the main streets of Dili.
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Street theatre in Dili, Timor-Leste on Independence Day, 2009.
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A young Arte Moris student resting after street theatre performances on the 2009 Independence Day in Dili, Timor-Leste.
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This beautiful Timorese dragonfly hangs around the painted ‘welcome’ poles at Arte Moris in Dili. It seems to love the colours.
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Hanging out at the markets in Suai, a remote town in Timor-Leste.
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In the markets in Suai a remote town in Timor-Leste.
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