Tiwi people, Australian Aborigines

Tiwi Islanders: For the Living

The 2700 Tiwi people live on Bathurst and Melville Islands, off northern Australia. In Portrait of a People, Heide Smith combines images of the past and a troubled present that tell a painful story

Photographs by Heide Smith (heidesmith.com)

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