PAPUA NEW GUINEA

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Photographs of Papua New Guinea

  • Asaro Mudmen preparing for a performance in a small village outside Goroka, Papua New Guinea
  • Asaro Mudmen preparing for a performance in a small village outside Goroka, Papua New Guinea
  • MIssionaries at the market in Goroka, PNG
  • Vegu, a member of the Nagamiufa tribe, in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea wearing traditional 'bilas'. Her grandfather recieves a small living allowance from the government for his work preserving traditional costumes of tribal groups in the highlands.
  • Vegu, a member of the Nagamiufa tribe, in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea wearing traditional 'bilas'. Her grandfather recieves a small living allowance from the government for his work preserving traditional costumes of tribal groups in the highlands.
  • Vegu, and michael, members of the Nagamiufa tribe, in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea wearing traditional 'bilas'. Her grandfather recieves a small living allowance from the government for his work preserving traditional costumes of tribal groups in the highlands.
  • Michael Manove, a member of the Nagamiufa tribe, in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea wearing traditional 'bilas'. Her grandfather recieves a small living allowance from the government for his work preserving traditional costumes of tribal groups in the highlands.
  • Michael Manove, a member of the Nagamiufa tribe, in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea wearing traditional 'bilas'. Her grandfather recieves a small living allowance from the government for his work preserving traditional costumes of tribal groups in the highlands.
  • Michael Manove in the traditional bilas of his tribe, the Nagamiufa tribe. Michael dresses in bilas for political rallies, weddings and a ceremony called 'brideprice' during which a man's family take money and pigs and hold a celebration in his wife's village.
  • One of the major problems facing the highlands is the drug and arms trade. Marijuana, which grows in copious quantities around Goroka, is smuggled out aboard ships operated by logging companies. The marijuana is then traded for Ak47s, M16s and RPGs from post conflict countries in Asia, especially from the Indonesian province of West Papua. Sorong, West Papua.
  • Ciputo Manove in Nagamiufa Village, Papua New Guinea
  • One of the major problems facing the highlands is the drug and arms trade. Marijuana, which grows in copious quantities around Goroka, is smuggled out aboard ships operated by logging companies. The marijuana is then traded for Ak47s, M16s and RPGs from post conflict countries in Asia, especially from the Indonesian province of West Papua. Sorong, West Papua.
  • One of the major problems facing the highlands is the drug and arms trade. Marijuana, which grows in copious quantities around Goroka, is smuggled out aboard ships operated by logging companies. The marijuana is then traded for Ak47s, M16s and RPGs from post conflict countries in Asia, especially from the Indonesian province of West Papua. Sorong, West Papua.
  • One of the major problems facing the highlands is the drug and arms trade. Marijuana, which grows in copious quantities around Goroka, is smuggled out aboard ships operated by logging companies. The marijuana is then traded for Ak47s, M16s and RPGs from post conflict countries in Asia, especially from the Indonesian province of West Papua. Sorong, West Papua.
  • One of the major problems facing the highlands is the drug and arms trade. Marijuana, which grows in copious quantities around Goroka, is smuggled out aboard ships operated by logging companies. The marijuana is then traded for Ak47s, M16s and RPGs from post conflict countries in Asia, especially from the Indonesian province of West Papua. Sorong, West Papua.
  • One of the major problems facing the highlands is the drug and arms trade. Marijuana, which grows in copious quantities around Goroka, is smuggled out aboard ships operated by logging companies. The marijuana is then traded for Ak47s, M16s and RPGs from post conflict countries in Asia, especially from the Indonesian province of West Papua. Sorong, West Papua.
  • Kesavaka village in the eastern highlands, papua new guinea
  • A few days before we began shooting this story, a long standing tribal conflict in neighbouring Kainantu resulted in 16 people from the settler Kamono tribe being brutally murdered. Kainantu, eastern highlands, png.
  • A few days before we began shooting this story, a long standing tribal conflict in neighbouring Kainantu resulted in 16 people from the settler Kamono tribe being brutally murdered. Kainantu, eastern highlands, png.
  • Villagers outside Kainantu, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.
  • There are also huge mining and resource extraction interests throughout PNG. Here Walter shows me a precious stone he found in a river outside Geroka. In the southern highlands a joint venture headed by Exxon mobil have invested $15 billion in a liquified natural gas project, they have already presold nine trillion cubic feet of gas to China with delivery planned to start in 2014.
  • Nox with his family, Nagamiufa village, Papua New Guinea
  • Villagers outside Kainantu, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.
  • Papa Manape, at his home outside Kainantu, Eastern HIghlands, PNG
  • Private security firms do a roaring trade throughout PNG thanks to all of the high stakes corporate investment and of course the prevalence of criminal activity.
  • Private security firms do a roaring trade throughout PNG thanks to all of the high stakes corporate investment and of course the prevalence of criminal activity.
  • Crime is increasingly endemic in many parts of the highlands. Here a young man is put in a police van after stealing a missionary's bag, narrowly escaping the violent wrath of the angry mob.
  • Acting Provincial Police Commander for Goroka district, David Seine, is deeply concerned about the presence of ever increasing illegal arms caches in villages building up to the 2012 election. The Australian government have echoed these conerns and have preliminary plans to evacuate 15,000 expatriates in the quite likely event that the elections descend into anarchy.
  • There is just one police officer for every 500 citizens in Goroka and recruitment levels continues to fall. The police are not only outnumbered but outgunned, as illegal arms continue to proliferate.
  • There is just one police officer for every 500 citizens in Goroka and recruitment levels continues to fall. The police are not only outnumbered but outgunned, as illegal arms continue to proliferate.
  • There is just one police officer for every 500 citizens in Goroka and recruitment levels continues to fall. The police are not only outnumbered but outgunned, as illegal arms continue to proliferate.
  • A truck takes convicted criminals from the police station to Goroka prison.
  • Shirley Tomanga, a dentist, at home in Goroka, PNG
  • Goroka is the capital of the Eastern Highlands, it is a veritable melting pot of cultures. Settlers come from all over the highlands hoping to find work. It is home to both some of the most spectacular cultural exchnages on the planet and some of the most gruesome and ferocious inter tribal fighting.
  • Thomson Harokaqveh, Goroka MP, picks us up. He is driving his truck, in the back are his supporters. They're on their way to a poltical rally in the highlands outside Goroka. Papua New Guinea.
  • Inhabitants of Kimayao Village remove pumpkin and sweet potato from their Mumu (earth oven). A fire is first built in a pit; stones are then superheated on the embers before the food is placed in banana leaves on top, followed by a pig. The whole thing is covered with earth. Bamboo stems feed water to the hot rocks to steam the food.
  • Inhabitants of Kimayao Village remove pumpkin and sweet potato from their Mumu (earth oven). A fire is first built in a pit; stones are then superheated on the embers before the food is placed in banana leaves on top, followed by a pig. The whole thing is covered with earth. Bamboo stems feed water to the hot rocks to steam the food.
  • Inhabitants of Kimayao Village address Thomson and thank him for visiting their village. In return he pledges to help their village should he be reelected.
  • Thomson Harokaqveh takes us on a pre election visit to a village in the mountains around Goroka. During his current term as MP he has built them a new road in order that they can get their coffee to market. The road still needs some work, however.
  • 'Big man' syndrome is deeply embedded in highland culture and leaders are expected to be completely self-sufficient. When the Landcruiser he's driving finally gets stuck in deep mud, Thompson Harokaqveh commandeers a JCB and starts clearing the topsoil.
  • Thomson Harokaqveh, Goroka MP and Minister for Environment, addresses a group of villagers in his constituency. Thomson is believed to be half Australian but he sells himself as PNG born and bred. The intense sweat on his head is the result of chewing a particularly strong betel nut, a narcotic popular throughout the highlands.
  • Thomson Harokaqzeh, the minister for environment and conservation in Papua New Guinea, is given a traditional reception in Gamusi Village, Goroka District, Papua New Guinea.
  • Thomson Harokaqzeh, the minister for environment and conservation in Papua New Guinea, is given a traditional reception in Gamusi Village, Goroka District, Papua New Guinea.
  • Kennthe Manove and his friends playing playstation in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
  • The official visit takes place in Gamusi village, but villagers from throughout the valley will have come in order to pledge their support in return for money, beer, marijuana and and policy promises which may or may not be fulfilled.
  • The official visit takes place in Gamusi village, but villagers from throughout the valley will have come in order to pledge their support in return for money, beer, marijuana and and policy promises which may or may not be fulfilled.
  • The official visit takes place in Gamusi village, but villagers from throughout the valley will have come in order to pledge their support in return for money, beer, marijuana and and policy promises which may or may not be fulfilled.
  • Thomson is carried down to the main cermemonial ground on a litter woven from jungle vines and other foliage.
  • Huli wigmen in attendance at the rally in Gamusi Village