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FEATURE: LOVE CAN ENDURE ALL, BUT NOT WITHOUT… LIANA TURNER x AUGUST 17, 2015

A blind date was not how Christine Hanssen imagined she would meet the man she’d spend the rest of her life with. She and now husband, Hubert were from the Netherlands and had both been travelling on separate journeys in Canada. One night, some mutual friends – and perhaps fate – drew them together. Fifty-seven years later, they’re still madly in love.

But love is not everything. To create a life of satisfaction for yourself and those around you, there must be more. For example, respect, patience, determination, trust, and perseverance. These qualities have been present throughout the fifty seven year marriage of Christine and Hubert Hanssen.

In 2013, nearly fifty thousand Australian couples were granted a divorce – the latest count from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In spite of the heartbreak and faded love that these statistics indicate, Christine and Hubert Hanssen’s bond has lasted for more than half a century, a handful of countries and countless challenges.

It was 1959, in Montreal., sometime in April or May. Christine was asked out to dinner with a friend and her partner. “She has come from Holland,” Christine said. “Her boyfriend had a friend with him, so we all went out together”. From that evening on, she and Hubert hit it off. “I didn’t expect it, but we just clicked, somehow…” she said.

That December, they married in Toronto, where they later brought their first child into the world. “We didn’t muck around too long,” Christine said.

Today, many couples casually spend tens of thousands of dollars on their big day. For the Hanssens, it was a simple affair. “It was just the two of us and two witnesses we didn’t know,” Christine said. “We went to the council chambers

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first but they were closed, so we went to the Uniting Church”. The witnesses, she said, were the cleaner and the gardener. “It was quite interesting,” she said. “We had just moved to Toronto so we didn’t really know anybody there.

Hubert decided to try Toronto out, and I followed him there.”

driven fantasies. Christine said there were many days when caring for him proved challenging. While the progression of his disease has not made him aggressive, seeing the love of her life fade away before her eyes has been a heartbreaking experience.

The family back home in the Netherlands weren’t too disappointed about missing out on the ceremony; and by the time Christine and Hubert returned in December 1959, they had a baby daughter in tow. “They were all very happy to see us and excited about us having a daughter, because they could spoil her rotten,” she said. “But I’m sure they weren’t very happy when we left for Australia.”

It began with tiny moments of forgetfulness. Hubert would forget that he’d already checked the mailbox, or taken his pills. One day, driving his grandchildren home from the school bus, he simply forgot how to make the windscreen wipers stop. That was shortly before they took his license; his independence. That was right before he began to quietly accept that his mind was fading. Then, there were many days of angry denial. Now, there’s simply submission. As if he’s forgotten what it was like to remember. But while the memory of what he did yesterday – or several hours ago – is impermanent, their love perseveres.

When the couple decided to uproot their life once again, bringing their three young children to Australia, their life wasn’t without challenge. Their second daughter was born disabled, and faced a plethora of difficulties as she grew up.

In the 60s, children – and society at large – were not altogether compassionate towards children like her. More than a decade ago, their daughter’s kidneys had failed and things were looking dire. She was hopelessly unwell, and was given five months to live. However today, she rarely shows any signs of ill health. Christine and Hubert cared for their daughter until several years ago, when the pressure of that role – on top of caring for her husband, who now has Alzheimer’s – began to prove too much for Christine. In the last six months, Christine and Hubert have moved from their home of ten years to a nearby retirement village, where they are now able to socialise more freely.

For the moment at least, Hubert knows his close family. He remembers pieces of old war stories, but they’re increasingly intertwined with his own dementia-

Decades after moving to Australia, Christine and Hubert were visiting relatives in the Netherlands. One day, they spoke to their oldest daughter on the phone.

She’d bought a house with her partner, they were told. “I said to Hubert after I got off the phone, I bet you they’ll be married by the time we get back,” Christine said. “They did the same thing as us.” Sure enough, when they returned to Australia their daughter had married in the same fashion, with some close family and just a few friends present. They, too, are still happily married today.

Love might appear in an instant, but can’t be maintained without some hard work, Christine said. “I always think if you’re happy, you’ve got to make the bad things work out as well,” she said. “I’m sure you cannot have a

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relationship without having bad times. There will be bad occasions, where you can’t seem to get on, you can’t seem to communicate. But we’re all different.

We have different attitudes, different ways of dealing with things.” She said toughing it out through a few rough patches was worth it, while some couples were too quick to give up. “They spend thousands of dollars on [a wedding]… and maybe they want it to be too perfect,” she said. “They think there aren’t supposed to be any disagreements. I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. When you get married, you’re two different people with two different upbringings, two different minds.”

This July, Christine and Hubert are due to become great-grandparents.

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FEATURE: LOVE CAN ENDURE ALL, BUT NOT WITHOUT…

A blind date was not how Christine Hanssen imagined she would meet the man she’d spend the rest of her life with. She and now husband, Hubert were from the Netherlands and had both been travelling on separate journeys in Canada. One night, some mutual friends – and perhaps fate – drew them together. Fifty-seven years later, they’re still madly in love.

But love is not everything. To create a life of satisfaction for yourself and those around you, there must be more. For example, respect, patience, determination, trust, and perseverance. These qualities have been present throughout the fifty seven year marriage of Christine and Hubert Hanssen.

In 2013, nearly fifty thousand Australian couples were granted a divorce – the latest count from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In spite of the heartbreak and faded love that these statistics indicate, Christine and Hubert Hanssen’s bond has lasted for more than half a century, a handful of countries and countless challenges.

It was 1959, in Montreal., sometime in April or May. Christine was asked out to dinner with a friend and her partner. “She has come from Holland,” Christine said. “Her boyfriend had a friend with him, so we all went out together”. From that evening on, she and Hubert hit it off. “I didn’t expect it, but we just clicked, somehow…” she said.

That December, they married in Toronto, where they later brought their first child into the world. “We didn’t muck around too long,” Christine said.

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first but they were closed, so we went to the Uniting Church”. The witnesses, she said, were the cleaner and the gardener. “It was quite interesting,” she said. “We had just moved to Toronto so we didn’t really know anybody there.

Hubert decided to try Toronto out, and I followed him there.”

driven fantasies. Christine said there were many days when caring for him proved challenging. While the progression of his disease has not made him aggressive, seeing the love of her life fade away before her eyes has been a heartbreaking experience.

The family back home in the Netherlands weren’t too disappointed about missing out on the ceremony; and by the time Christine and Hubert returned in December 1959, they had a baby daughter in tow. “They were all very happy to see us and excited about us having a daughter, because they could spoil her rotten,” she said. “But I’m sure they weren’t very happy when we left for Australia.”

It began with tiny moments of forgetfulness. Hubert would forget that he’d already checked the mailbox, or taken his pills. One day, driving his grandchildren home from the school bus, he simply forgot how to make the windscreen wipers stop. That was shortly before they took his license; his independence. That was right before he began to quietly accept that his mind was fading. Then, there were many days of angry denial. Now, there’s simply submission. As if he’s forgotten what it was like to remember. But while the memory of what he did yesterday – or several hours ago – is impermanent, their love perseveres.

When the couple decided to uproot their life once again, bringing their three young children to Australia, their life wasn’t without challenge. Their second daughter was born disabled, and faced a plethora of difficulties as she grew up.

In the 60s, children – and society at large – were not altogether compassionate towards children like her. More than a decade ago, their daughter’s kidneys had failed and things were looking dire. She was hopelessly unwell, and was given five months to live. However today, she rarely shows any signs of ill health. Christine and Hubert cared for their daughter until several years ago, when the pressure of that role – on top of caring for her husband, who now has Alzheimer’s – began to prove too much for Christine. In the last six months, Christine and Hubert have moved from their home of ten years to a nearby retirement village, where they are now able to socialise more freely.

For the moment at least, Hubert knows his close family. He remembers pieces of old war stories, but they’re increasingly intertwined with his own dementiaLIANA TURNER x AUGUST 17, 2015

Decades after moving to Australia, Christine and Hubert were visiting relatives in the Netherlands. One day, they spoke to their oldest daughter on the phone.

She’d bought a house with her partner, they were told. “I said to Hubert after I got off the phone, I bet you they’ll be married by the time we get back,” Christine said. “They did the same thing as us.” Sure enough, when they returned to Australia their daughter had married in the same fashion, with some close family and just a few friends present. They, too, are still happily married today.

Love might appear in an instant, but can’t be maintained without some hard work, Christine said. “I always think if you’re happy, you’ve got to make the bad things work out as well,” she said. “I’m sure you cannot have a

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relationship without having bad times. There will be bad occasions, where you can’t seem to get on, you can’t seem to communicate. But we’re all different.

We have different attitudes, different ways of dealing with things.” She said toughing it out through a few rough patches was worth it, while some couples were too quick to give up. “They spend thousands of dollars on [a wedding]… and maybe they want it to be too perfect,” she said. “They think there aren’t supposed to be any disagreements. I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. When you get married, you’re two different people with two different upbringings, two different minds.”

This July, Christine and Hubert are due to become great-grandparents.

LIANA TURNER x AUGUST 17, 2015

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KELLY MCILVENNY

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: PROFILE: KELLY MCILVENNY LEESA CONNELLY x OCTOBER 22, 2013

What inspired you to pursue a career in photojournalism?

Kelly McIlvenny is a visual journalist based

on the Gold Coast, Australia. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Visual Art. I spoke to her about what inspired her to begin a career in photojournalism, as well as what keeps her motivated. Kelly spoke to me about her constantly evolving career, as well as new projects

and opportunities on the horizon.

There are so many moments that lead to me pursuing a career in photojournalism. I will share the one where I fell in love with photography instead.

When I was eight, maybe nine, years old my grandfather gave me his old Nikon. My family was living in the US at the time, so it was something special to share with a man I barely new but deeply loved. I remember one day convincing (bribing) my younger siblings to come outside in the late afternoon on a cool day, posing them for some portraits. But then something magical happened, my young sister attacked her older brother in the way only sisters can with love and vengeance at the same moment. Colliding on the ground. Click. The warm light on their giggling little faces making their cold rose colour cheeks even more prominent. I could not wait to have the film developed at the local CVS, excited to send it off to the man who loved photography, but loved me more. It seems silly, but this moment shows everything I love about the little black box—the camera’s miraculous ability to capture something already gone. To slow my normally racing mind down, to be in that moment, to save it for later. I was hooked.

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The newborn baby girl is lifted over to small plastic cot under a lamp moments after being born. The young nursing students wash the baby off with prepared towels, and then wrap her in layers of cloth. Her mother, Dhan Mave Tmapa, 27, arrived at the Baglung Maternity ward from Kudula, an hour away, with a full dilated cervix.She came with her husband, Sakendra Bdrthara and her sister.

She gave birth to her baby girl at 9:20 a.m.

26 June 2011/Baglung, Nepal. Kelly Mcllvenny

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Did you have any prior knowledge of photojournalism before you began studying it?

Yes, some. I had read of its history and who were some of the greats. But not the important things, like its emotional hold on you or how to read the visual narratives.

What are you currently working on for your doctorate?

In short, it is about an army. This army has no weapons, and the vast majority of its members are women. Yet its infantry numbers over 50,000. It is an army of volunteers combating maternal and infant mortality rates in Nepal, supported by the nurses and doctors of health outposts and hospitals often several hours away. So my work is on telling this largely untold story, in hopes that these women’s achievements and challenges will be seen, honoured, and continue to be supported. My doctoral work is a continuation of my honours work entitled Welcome Labour Room documenting the issues and challenges surrounding pregnancy and childbirth in Nepal.

What is the most rewarding part about being a photojournalist?

For me it is the experiences it has lead me to, and the people I have had the privilege of working with. No project is the same, as no day is the same on any one project. Life moves on, and it is such an honor to have the opportunity to watch it. In particular, it is wonderful to know that my visual language has helped One Heart convince thousands of people to help thousands of women in rural Nepal have a safe pregnancy and childbirth. It is priceless that kind of joy. Likewise, the time I have spent with the women of Baglung district in Nepal are memories I will never forget.

What are the biggest challenges you have faced?

Like all travellers bed bugs, Giardia, and other digestive track implosions come to mind—finding the will to do anything but sleep in 50 degree Celsius heat.

Perhaps more difficult are the emotional hurdles, both in convincing yourself this is the right path despite a whole industry of people telling you to run the other way—photojournalism is dying they say, there are no jobs in media, you are a terrible person for wanting to photograph childbirth in a third world country, and the list goes on. On a more personal level, photographing women who are exactly your age and will never have the same opportunities in life that you have been given because they were forced to marry at fifteen and now have three children and are severely malnourished from living below the poverty line, is incredibly emotional. Then trying to balance your desire to work harder and do more with an instinctual desire to spend time with your own loved ones. It is a challenge, sometimes heartbreaking, but always worth it.

What do you strive to achieve for your future career?

My ideas of my future career are constantly evolving as new opportunities and projects come forward. If I have learned anything from the global financial crisis, it is to be flexible and find new ways of making your goals possible.

When I finish my doctorate I hope to gain a place working as an Australian Youth Ambassador working as a researcher or communications assistant for one of AusAid’s partner organizations abroad. Beyond that I am not an ambitious person, as long as I continue to find a way to work on projects that have meaning I will live with no regrets.

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The two boys nicknamed Socrates and King Kong affectionately rest in the shade of Cambodia Development Organization Orphanage school room, The twenty three children that find refuge here create a close knit family, one that visitors a quickly invite d into.

Slem Reap, Cambodia. 2010.Kelly Mcllvenny

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Are you always satisfied with the work you produce?

No, but I am always grateful for the experience. I am still learning, I imagine that will never change.

Who inspires your work?

Visually many photographers have inspired my work, perhaps more importantly Jack Picone, Stephen Dupont, Fracesco Zizola, Ed Giles and Trent Parke inspire me as human beings and how they approach their work and in turn their life—they are all extremely generous with their knowledge, a quality I admire greatly. I am also greatly inspired by my peers, for instance Raphella Rosella’s work on young mothers captures beauty—reaching to a place beyond the trivial to meaningful engagement.

On your website you have a section for commercial photography.

Do you prefer commercial or documentary style photography, and why?

While I take on commercial projects for the health of my wallet, the commercial projects I choose to work on reflect my personal interests and documentary style. Individuals choose to hire me for that style, so it is not one or the other. While long form reportage is definitely my passion, I enjoy working creatively with commercial clients.

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What are some of the lessons photojournalism has taught you, and what advice would you give to emerging and aspiring photojournalists?

I am an emerging photojournalist, but here are a few rough guidelines: • Everyone has a story. Each is valuable beyond measure, because it represents a life lived. Respect each story as if it was a life.

• There is no such thing as being invisible, so be mindful of your presence—set a positive tone with open body language and an open mind.

• You will miss many photographs, but only you can lose those memories.

• Choose your own path, there is no right way when wandering through the creative forest.

• Never give in to cynicism.

• Keep a journal.

• Share cups of tea with many people.

• Come prepared but open-minded.

• Take the road not taken.

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