Hunting with Tiwi WomenPart 2 of a series of portraits of Ardent Indigenous Australian Women by photographer Heide Smith. Hunting for Possum with Valma – portrait by Heide Smith Hunting with Tiwi Women. The air is smoky. The Tiwi have been burning off, so it’s a good time to go hunting with the Tiwi. Some women asked […]
Ardent Indigenous Australian Women A series of portraits of strong Tiwi Women by photographer Heide Smith. Off to Tarantippi Beach 1987 I recently made a promise on Facebook to show some of the portraits from my collection of Strong Tiwi Women. It’s called “Ardent Indigenous Australian Women”, and this is the first post.It was ‘Dry Season’ […]
Alte Silber Gelantine Fotografie von Hameln 1956Die ‘Josef Lebovic Gallerie, Sydney, Australien’ gab vor einer Woche einen Katalog mit seltenen Fotos -unter anderen auch von Alt Hameln- heraus. Die Aufnahmen stammen von den Jahren 1955-1961, als Heide(Smith)Soltsien erst noch Foto-Lehrling war, und spaeter als Fotografin an der Tages-Zeitung DEWEZET als Fotoreporterin arbeitete. Der Katalog hat die […]
Vintage Photographs of Germany 1955-61 – School outingVintage photographs of Germany. School Outing is the third post in the series “the story behind the image”. All the images in the series are featured in the Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue of Heide’s work, which you can see on my website From the catalogue1.| |School Outing Into The Forest,|1956.| […]
The story behind the image – four little TiwiThis is the second post in the series “the story behind the image”. All the images in the series are featured in the Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue of Heide’s work, which you can see on my website.From the catalogue16.| |Four Little Tiwis, Bathurst Island,| 1988/1990.| Vintage silver […]
The story behind the image – Gerardine In our last blog we featured the Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue of Heide’s work. We talked about the work involved in preparing images for the catalogue of such a prestigious gallery, and we promised a future series of posts talking about “the story behind the image”. So here’s the […]
Josef Lebovic Gallery – Heide Smith Photographer About the Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue. This week the Josef Lebovic Gallery published a catalogue of photographs (Collectors List No 188 ), taken over a sixty year period by Heide Smith. The catalogue contains 48 vintage photographs, a vintage folio, and 3 Limited Edition folios. The images will be exhibited […]
My tiwi sister Gerardine TungatalumI want to honour the memory of my Tiwi sister Gerardine Tungatalum, on this International Women’s Day. Gerardine, a proud traditional Tiwi Elder, was loved and respected by all who knew her, and was my friend and mentor on my early visits to the Tiwi Islands. There are more portraits of […]
Portrait of Hon Dr Barry Jones – “The Courage Party” Two things happened on Saturday. I read Dr Barry Jones article “The Courage Party” in The Saturday Paper, and Heide gave me another portrait to add to the Noted Australians Collection on her website- and the portrait was of Barry Jones! If you are too […]
Sister Anne Gardiner- Senior Australian of the Year 2017April the 12th 2016 was the last time I set foot on Bathurst Island NT. The short flight from Darwin is always a delight for the eyes for the scenery below and when we land it is like coming home. July the 30th 1987 was the very […]