ABOVE RIGHT: Looking after the children is not an easy task, especially for women in rural areas. They do not
show the daily lifestyles, the obligations, the traditions and cultures of people in different and remote parts of our country. I started taking pictures when I was about 12 and mini digital cameras were very common. I would buy AA-sized batteries in Lae and bring them home on school holidays to Siassi Island (Morobe) to use in my “My aim is to give a glimpse of what the lives of rural women are like”
have any help at all when it comes to household chores. Apart from child rearing, they clean the house, do laundry, prepare meals and tend their gardens. This mother is from Manado (West Papua) and is married to a Bosset man. Image captured at their Bosset home, Middle Fly District.
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