Women of ParuPart 3 of a series of portraits of Ardent Indigenous Australian Women by photographer Heide Smith. Marjorie Wonnamirri Paru Melville Island 1987 – portrait by Heide Smith Paru is a small place on the west coast of Bathurst Island, just over the Apsley straight from Nguiu – now called Wurrumiyanga – on Melville Island. It […]
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’ […]
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 […]
Portrait of a People – the Tiwi of northern Australia Portrait of a People is first and foremost a book of photographs taken by Heide of the Tiwi and of Tiwi life over a 20 year period,but it is more than just a picture book, in that it also relates the history, and describes the lifestyle, […]
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 […]
heide smith’s tiwi collectionngiya mamanta tiwi – my friends the tiwi”I had a permit to visit the Tiwi islands, so I then flew to Nguiu on Bathurst Island. I only stayed a week, but that was enough for me to make up my mind. I had seen many strange and fascinating sights during my travels […]
vintage folio of 90 photographs of 1990 Tiwi book originals Unique Folio of 90 Tiwi Book “printers originals” vintage photographs 1990: In 1990 Collins/Angus & Robertson published a book of my Photographs of Indigenous Australians, “Tiwi – The Life and Art of Australia’s Tiwi People”. The book was reprinted twice, and launched in an exhibition at the […]
heide smith’s limited edition photographs of the tiwiFrom the many thousands of images that I have taken of the Tiwi People of Bathurst and Melville Islands, north of Darwin, over the last 30 years, I have chosen approximately 100 images , from The Tiwi Collection for this gallery, including 50 prints which can also be […]