an opportunity to buy and distribute solar powered lights as they are essential to people living in remote areas so every two or three months I travel through East and West Sepik and Western Province delivering the lights to my customers. Memories of each place I travel to are kept in my gallery. A friend gave me my first Canon DSLR in 2019 and I moved up from taking photos on my smartphone. It was a basic camera with simple features and functions but unfortunately after a few months developed smartphone – there was no question of stopping because for me the love and passion of taking pictures is never-ending! In 2021 I some problems so it was back to my LEFT: Mothers takes their children to the medical clinic somewhere between Sepik River and May River via Wanep. Parents travel hours from their homes to access medical care so unsurprisingly, serious emergency cases usually result in death.
Women sell betelnut and other produce at LabLab Wharf on Siassi Island, Morobe Province, relying on passenger-cargo ships such as MV Ialibu calling in from Lae and Kimbe to bring customers. Earning an income on a remote and isolated island is difficult, particularly when all three of the island’s airstrips are closed so the only way to get there is by sea.
RIGHT: Young women in remote areas find it difficult to raise their children. Without formal education or jobs, they struggle to find money to care for their children, and as a result the children suffer and go without. Pictured is young mother Milly from Manda, Middle Fly District of Western, with her son Isaiah.
mining camps, panning and dredging for gold, in East Sepik’s Ambunti District (May River) then to Frieda River in the Tunap- Hunstein Range of West Sepik where I am still based. I also found
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