12/7/08 After 200 years AIATSIS . Photographic essay of Indigenous Australia.
Something close to my heart and I have been apart of for the past 6 years.
In 1988 2oo years of early coloniaisation, a team of Indigenous and non Indigenous photogaphers where a part of a process to document the lives of Australian Aborginginal and Toress Strait Islanders in their own communities and how they have progress during that time.
My recent employemt with AIATSIS as a photographer has given me the opportunity to visit and hand back these imags that where taken over 20 years ago.

In a recent class, we discussed photography and colonialism and the importance of those Indigenous photographs take over 100 years ago.
Although they where exploited, they are now an important part of history, healing process and story telling.
The after 200 years collection is also is used in the same way to reconnect families and people back together. And over time those early colonialism photographs will be just as important.