It is an honour, you know, to showcase the beauty of my … Anangu … wati, minyma, kungka, meaning the Elders, the men, the women and the younger generation of women and the brother and the … To capture the beauty and the essence of these people, it was about empowerment. It was about holding onto the importance of who we are as Anangu. In front and behind the lens. How the lens can capture the beauty and the story of one side face. If you look at the photographs, you know, you’ve captured the beauty of either the left of the right. It’s about the kuru – looking deep within the eye of a person. And that person is not only a person but it is a person of significance of tjukurpa (story), inma (song), milmilpa (sacredness of the individual), what their duty, what their responsibility lies within themselves.
So that’s the story about what I’ve captured. It’s about empowerment and it’s about Anangu, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, on the lands, you know, how everything is moving and changing and moving and changing and capturing the most important stories of who we are, where we come from, and that I am capturing these moments and that there’s many more behind me that have that same skills of capturing the moment.
We [are] all good at our work because we all follow our cultures. We follow one tjukurpa, transition and holding onto kulintjaku, holding onto the importance of culture and looking after one another.
