Faces of Australian Aborigines (11 pics)

Posted in PICTURES       18 Oct 2010       38190

One Russian girl has been to Australia recently and took these pictures, here’s an extract of what she wrote about the natives:

"The Aborigines have a culture of thousands of years. Today’s life of these people is not that easy, even though the government give them enough of cash benefits it doesn’t make it better. While the "whites", in the absence of their culture, open art galleries, selling aboriginal paintings for quite big money (from 3,000 to 40,000 dollars), create shops, where you can draw a picture together with Aboriginal people. The Aborigines from there side, rent their land, such as the famous Uluru or Ayers Rock.

I photographed them mostly in secret, sometimes from the car. A couple of times, they asked money for a picture.. twenty bucks. When I asked them: "Can I take a photo?" they responded: "Take picture of him" pointing at their neighbor."

 

Faces of Australian Aborigines (11 pics)
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