As I look out on the unutterable beauty of the snowcapped mountains of the Ngarigo country that I live in, I can only marvel at the conversation I just had with my friend who is enjoying the humidity of 35 degree heat in Larrakia country. Most Australians, much less the rest of the “white” world … Continue reading The Limit Of Our Sight…
When long running TV cartoon “The Simpsons” demonstrated a spooky prescience in March 2000, about a Trump American Presidency leaving the country bankrupt, writer Dan Greaney told the Washington Post that Trump was chosen because he was a “Simpsons-esque figure” who fitted “right in there” into that cartoon world. (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) … Continue reading MAD AS HELL…
I remember the last time I saw my Dad fully conscious before he died. I was a brand new photographer. I had only bought a camera about eighteen months before I had my last conversation with him. And as I made my final visit to him before the life zapping operation he endured, I dragged … Continue reading Photojournalism…now and then…
Like a sewerage outfall into the ocean, last week’s so-called Australian national celebration of its apparent “founding” on the 26th January, has washed up the usual turds onto the shores of this ancient continent. Continue reading Boganus Australis
… and through my eyes it is very far away. I can’t recall much of my childhood now unless I meditate on specific events that occurred, but some were really happy… some not so. For that tall, fair and slightly built girl who had a passion for horses, painting and poetry the relief from the nausea inducing … Continue reading The Past is a Distant Country….
…has been driven into the heart of the country called Australia. The name of this country is of course not the same name for country that the Original People…whose DNA is entwined with the very molecules of earth of which it is made… would call it. But it is the same place geographically. Not spiritually, not culturally, not … Continue reading The Invisible Spear…
… And We Want It Now! So go the lyrics of one of the seminal songs of the 1960’s “When The Music’s Over” by Jim Morrison and The Doors. Jim Morrison was a great poet and iconic ‘rock-star’ who challenged the actions of the generations that had proceeded him with his songs, in what were considered to be … Continue reading We Want The World….
Abraham Lincoln once said “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice”. Lincoln of course is a historic figure and a great man of the sort we don’t seem to find anymore in this world. It would seem strange that as an Australian photojournalist that I would open this particular blog with a … Continue reading We Stand For Mercy…
“Until we give back to the black man just a bit of land that was his and give it back without provisos, without strings to snatch it back, without anything but complete generosity of spirit in concession for the evil we have done him – until we do that, we shall remain what we have … Continue reading Poor Fellow My Country
Ok..Ok…It might appear that I am bagging Australians unjustly but it just seems to me that every time some white guy in the media opens their mouth lately they do it merely to exchange feet. I mean the President of the Collingwood Australian Rules football team, Eddie MacGuire has just recently rotated his metatarsals over … Continue reading Mumma Mia… Here We Go Again… Why Why…Why Are We So Sexist?
Lisa Hogben Photojournalist 