to publish and share on Facebook. I spent most of my holidays at home with my family and loved the peaceful environment – the simple village lifestyle and the natural beauty of the place. I went on to study The wife of one of the local community leaders cleans up after a public forum in Manda village, Middle Fly.
older sister’s digicam, taking pictures of almost anything that looked good and interesting. That was in the early 2000s. One thing that motivated me was seeing ‘wallpaper’ of striking landscapes on people’s computer monitors and laptops, so I began making my own of PNG scenes – beaches, rivers, mountains and islands –
in Port Moresby – electrical studies at POM Tech, then
The women of Eliptamin, a remote area in the Telefomin District (West Sepik) spend their days weaving beautiful tulip bilums, which are famous in this area and are made from the bark of the local tulip tree. Due to the remote area, the women cannot access store-bought wool so they make their own by stripping and beating the bark then twisting it into strings. The woven bilums are used for local sales, bride price payments or for everyday household chores.
A mother from Manda village in the Middle Fly District of Western Province fillets the famous barramundi, a daily chore for most women in this area to feed their families and earn a few kina. They sell the fish on the roadside or to sailors and ship crews of vessels along the Fly River. With little to no access to store goods, this fish is their staple source of meat.
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