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ARGUS Volume 1
FIRST PUBLISHED 2011 PUBLISHER Finesse Press. PO Box 1158, Byron Bay, NSW 2481 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data Faulkner, Heather, 1967– Picone, Jack, 1958– ARGUS: Volume 1 ISBN 978-0-9807008-5-5 © Finesse Press 2011 This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be made to the Manager, Finesse Press, PO Box 1158, Byron Bay, NSW 2481. Copying for educational purposes The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (‘Act’) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be copied by an educational institution for educational purposes provided that the educational institution (or the body that administers it) has given a renumeration notice to Copyright Agency Limited (‘CAL’) under the Act.
EXECUTIVE EDITORS Heather Faulkner, Jack Picone ASSOCIATE EDITOR Margaret Waller MANAGING EDITOR Sophie Baker CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Katie Fergus Shuo Huang Ziyu Liu Grant Scott Jacqueline Stewart. COVER IMAGE Kathmandu Temple by Nicolas Rakotopare DESIGN ARGUS Collective DESIGN CONSULTANT Luisa Di Girolamo
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 06
FOREWORD
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ESSAY
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INTRODUCTION
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SUMMER OF SORROW
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NIGHT OF FIRE
Marianne McDade
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THE FINAL LAP
Jerad Williams & Dale de la Ray
Heather Faulkner Margaret Waller Sophie Baker Collective
56 MUMBAI TERROR ATTACK: AN INSIDE LOOK 62 THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
Dale de la Ray
68 NOT YOUR ORDINARY GOLD COAST GIRL
Katie Garvan
76 FEATURE: KATHMANDU 84 HOPE 90 SCARS
LIGHTNING RIDGE
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A SIMPLE LIFE
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BUT I NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO LEAVE
Nicolette Johnson & Joe Ruckli
Sitthixay Ditthavong
Kannagi Bhatt
100 SINGLES
Nicolas Rakotopare Victor Wu Ashley Schumann
FOREWORD My grandmother grew up on a leased homestead on Blackfoot land in southern Alberta, Canada. In my childhood she told us this pre-depression-era story: The homestead had just acquired a telephone, and so the chief of the Blackfoot nation had come to XEOI LMW ½VWX XIPITLSRI GEPP°JVSQ LMW FVSXLIV 1] KVERHQSXLIV (then just a child) watched as this great man took the receiver, listened and then closed his eyes for the duration of the conversation. This new marvel of communication, this extension SJ XLI IEV [EW HMJ½GYPX XS GSQTVILIRH ±;LIVI ² WEMH XLI GLMIJ was his brother? This strange new experience of talking to a disembodied voice so shook his concept of what was real, that he had to close his eyes and imagine his brother in his mind. Only then could he speak with his brother. This is where it began for the chief, and by extension, for my grandmother. The telephone had, as Canadian media visionary Marshall McLuhan described it, become an extension of the ear. A few decades later and television had extended our eyes. -R 9RHIVWXERHMRK 1IHME 1G0YLER [VSXI ±XSHE] EJXIV QSVI than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system in a global embrace, abolishing both space ERH XMQI EW JEV EW SYV TPERIX MW GSRGIVRIH ²1 That was written in 1964. By the mid-seventies, McLuhan’s theories were not so much debunked as dismissed. In the 21st century, he has been VIMRXIVTVIXIH ERH IQFVEGIH ERI[°XLI TVSHMKEP WSR VIXYVRIH ;LIR [I ½VWX PEYRGLIH XLI %6+97 SRPMRI MR IEVP] MX was with the intention that we would adapt over a century of traditional photojournalistic practice to the new possibilities of digital online interactive storytelling, extending the reach of our I]IW ERH IEVW ;I [IVI HIXIVQMRIH XS FI EQSRKWX XLI ½VWX XS 6
chart and navigate this new landscape of engaging storytelling. As broadband and data capacities increased, our editors and contributors wholly embraced the potential for interactive audio narratives and the relatively new ability to publish video online. Since those early days, this hybrid of visual storytelling has now become a mainstay of modern photojournalism around the globe. In this new landscape of convergence culture, everything is virtually instantaneous. A recent example: Online in Australia, we experienced raw videos of a deposed dictator as he was dragged out of hiding in a storm drain and, violently, murdered en-route XS 1MWVEXE 4SWXIH SRPMRI [MXLMR QMRYXIW SJ +EHHE½´W HMWGSZIV] ERH IZIRXYEP QYVHIV XLIWI ZMHISW F] 0MF]ER ±GMXM^IR NSYVREPMWXW² have been viewed by millions around the globe. The traditional media outlets had no choice but to use this footage, over and SZIV EKEMR YRXMP MX GSYPH F] MXW S[R QIERW GSR½VQ XLMW WXVIEQ SJ visual information. ;LEX XLMW IZIRX ERH [LEX IZIV] GMXM^IR TSWXIH ZMWYEP TVSZIH° JVSQ MQEKIW SJ LSVVM½G XSVXYVI EKEMRWX WYWTIGXIH -VEUM XIVVSVMWXW by US captors in Abu Ghraib, to a video still of a dying Neda Agha-Soltan in the streets of Tehran, to the death of Formula 3RI HVMZIV (ER ;LIPHSR°MW XLEX ER]SRI GER FI E NSYVREPMWX In fact, in 2010, World Press Photo made a special mention of the anonymously posted still from a video of Neda Agha-Soltan. 7XEXMRK XLEX XLI MQEKI LEH ±TPE]IH ER IWWIRXMEP VSPI MR XLI RI[W reporting of the year worldwide and could not have been made F] E TVSJIWWMSREP TLSXSKVETLIV ²2 the 2010 World Press Photo jury tipped its hat in recognition of the burgeoning contribution GMXM^IR NSYVREPMWXW ZME XLI RI[ JVSRXMIV SJ XLI -RXIVRIX LEH QEHI to historical documentation.
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ESSAY Photojournalism: feeding the imagination Let me begin with a generalisation. Most people have a very fundamental desire to tell, to see, to listen to and read stories. Photojournalists are visual story-tellers. We seek out stories that document the lived experience of people like us and equally, those people who are very different to us. We look for stories about home, relationships, the environment, work and play of people in familiar and foreign settings. Why is the telling of stories through photographs and text so important? Images and text help create meaning. The viewer looks at images to see what a scene and people looked like. A strong dramatic image will tell more than an un-composed record MQEKI 7MKRM½GERXP] WXVSRK MQEKIW GER XIPP LS[ MX JIPX XS FI XLIVI XS receptive empathetic viewers. To extract more information, the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of a scene, its aetiology, the viewer may then turn to text. Thus, the viewer can ½RH QIERMRK XLVSYKL ER IRKEKIQIRX [MXL MQEKIW XI\X XLEX LEW both empathetic and aetiological dimensions. With meaning comes understanding. To better understand ourselves and also people different to us, is to cultivate our humanity, a truly ethical enterprise. One powerful voice in this enterprise is Martha Nussbaum (1997). She writes, of three capacities we can consider to cultivate humanity,
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8LI ½VWX MW XLI GETEGMX] JSV GVMXMGEP WIPJ I\EQMREXMSR ERH GVMXMGEP thinking about one’s own culture and traditions. The second is the capacity to see oneself as a human being who is bound to all humans with ties of concern. The third is the capacity for narrative MQEKMREXMSR°XLI EFMPMX] XS IQTEXLM^I [MXL SXLIVW ERH XS TYX oneself in another’s place. -RWMHI XLI %6+97 EPP XLVII GETEGMXMIW EVI VIEPMWIH 8LI ½VWX E GVMXMGEP GETEGMX] JSV WIPJ I\EQMREXMSR MW VMGLP] I\TPSVIH MR XLI ½VWX essay, ‘The Summer of Sorrow’. As a Queensland publication, it is ½XXMRK XS FIKMR EX LSQI [MXL MQEKIW JVSQ HMJJIVIRX TLSXSKVETLIVW GSZIVMRK XLI WXEXI [MHI ¾SSHW MR .ERYEV] 8LIWI MQEKIW WLS[ XLI I\XIRX SJ XLI ¾SSHW ERH XLIR LS[ E GSQQYRMX] QSFMPMWIH XS assist those affected. Compare this heroic view of ourselves with the gothic ordinariness of lives marked in two essays on residents of an outback town, Lightning Ridge by Nicolette Johnson and Joe Ruckli, and by Sitthixay Ditthavong.These essays illustrate a profound remoteness that breeds eccentrics and neglected individuals. The critical Australian-ness of this publication is also seen in Katie +EVZER´W XIRHIV WXSV] SJ XLI +SPH 'SEWX HERGIV ±/MQFIVP]² XLI LSRSVM½G JEVI[IPP ±8LI *MREP 0ET² MR XLI 0EWX 2MOSR -RH] GEV VEPP] in 2008 told by Dale de la Rey and Jerad Williams. Away from the chaos and speed of street life and fast cars, there is a still clarity to a collection of images by Ashley Schumann. In this series, Schumann looks at the equalising power of scars, it’s a series showing a depth of emotion from stoicism, humour and, of course, loss.
The second capacity outlined by Nussbaum, is the capacity to see oneself as a human being with shared concerns. Here Schumann’s essay also achieves this because to scar is to be human. In a way, Cricket is used as a device to link people across cultures. Indian cricket looks much like cricket anywhere with some thoughtful additions in the frame by photographer de la Rey to make these MQEKIW VI¾IGX XLI WYFGSRXMRIRX %R SVTLEREKI MR 'EQFSHME HSGYQIRXIH F] ITLSXSNSYVREPMWX :MGXSV ;Y MR LMW IWWE] ±,STI² brings to the viewer’s attention the faces and therefore identity to children whose lives are very different from our own. Finally, the third capacity is the ability to empathise with others different from us. Again Wu’s children are engaging the viewer face-to-face and through their activites. Walking the streets of Kathmandu with Nicolas Rakotopare, the viewer is transported to another place certainly, but also to what seems another century as well, and yet selling goods and drinking tea looks completely familiar. In Italy, another century is brought back into life with Marianne 1G(EHI´W GSZIVEKI SJ E ±2MKLX SJ *MVIW² 8LI ZMI[IV´W MQEKMREXMSR is transported as if in a movie. 8LI UYIWXMSR ±LS[ FIWX GER [I XVEMR JSV [SVPH GMXM^IRWLMT² probably requires a lifetime to address but thoughtful engagement with this publication is a useful contribution along the way. Enjoy! Margaret Waller, Associate Editor
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INTRODUCTION In an age that is heavily saturated with global news, where the world can watch a tsunami inundate a foreign country live, and victim’s of traumatic events can ‘tweet’ about their circumstance instantly, there is a beauty and a power that is still bestowed within XLI ½IPH SJ TLSXSNSYVREPMWQ ;MXL XMQI MRWMKLX ERH ZMWYEP WOMPP TLSXSNSYVREPMWQ TVIWIRXW XS YW E HIITIV MRWMKLX MRXS SYV [SVPH photojournalism seeks to unveil that to which the world is blind. What a powerful experience it has been to work as an editor on board the ARGUS. With photography in the 21st century WS ZEWXP] EGGIWWMFPI ERH XLI MRXVSHYGXMSR SJ GMXM^IR NSYVREPMWQ studying photojournalism has never been so important in order to keep on top of the industry. Those who are privileged enough to have done so have a wonderful leg-up on those who have not. Being trained to ‘see’ what others do not, being trained to capture what others cannot and being trained to investigate what others do not care about, differentiates us from reactionary and SJXIR YR EGGSYRXEFPI GMXM^IR NSYVREPMWQ 7XYH]MRK TLSXSNSYVREPMWQ challenges your thought processes and enables you to see the world in totally different ways, which in turn changes the way you TLSXSKVETL°FIGSQMRK QSVI VI¾IGXMZI MR XLI [E] ]SY [SVO allowing you to bring justice to the stories and the people within them. Over the past four years, the ARGUS has presented stories from all over the world to an international community. From large-scale international event to small local stories that pluck the LIEVXWXVMRKW PSGEPP] ERH KPSFEPP] XLI %6+97 LEW TVSYHP] VITSVXIH from the front-line.
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Right from its humble beginnings, the ARGUS editorial collective has been on-edge with modern reportage. Now, in this book, we present you with a tightly edited and thoughtful survey from our ½VWX JSYV ]IEVW SJ TYFPMWLMRK Sophie Baker, Manager Editor
ABOUT THE ARGUS The ARGUS is a digital portal to photojournalism, founded by Queensland College of Art, Griffth University (Gold Coast), staff ERH WXYHIRXW MR 8LI QYPXMQIHME TLSXSNSYVREPMWQ QEKE^MRI is updated monthly with photographic essays, series and singles, forging the new wave of Australian photojournalism. As a Queensland College of Art initiative, editorial and TYFPMGEXMSR VSPIW EVI QIX F] ER ERRYEP 他Y\ SJ RI[ WXYHIRXW ;MXL E photographic focus from contributors and editors alike, the team works alongside renowned photojournalists in executive editor roles, to ensure a rich visual insight to global affairs. In ancient Greek mythology, ARGUS was a watchman with one hundred eyes, even as he slept, his eyes stayed alert to the world around him.
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SUMMER OF SORROW ARGUS Collective
Between December 2010 and January 2011, the Queensland ¾SSHW QEHI LIEHPMRIW EVSYRH XLI [SVPH EW E XVEKIH] ERH E REXYVEP disaster of epic proportions. Thirty-seven Queenslanders lost their lives and thousands more suffered destruction and despair. Floodwaters ripped through Toowoomba, Lockyer Valley, Grantham and Murphys Creek in what came to be known as an ±MRPERH XWYREQM ² PIEZMRK E XVEMP SJ HIEXL ERH HIZEWXEXMSR MR MXW [EOI -R &VMWFERI XLSYKL ¾SSH PIZIPW JIPP WPMKLXP] WLSVX SJ XLSWI experienced in 1974, the devastation was arguably larger, with many MRYRHEXIH WYFYVFW P]MRK SR TVIZMSYWP] YRHIZIPSTIH ¾SSHTPEMRW 12
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On October 26th 2008 Surfers Paradise said goodbye to the Nikon Indy 300 as the iconic Indy cars roared through the Gold Coast streets for the last time.
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LIGHTNING RIDGE
A SIMPLE LIFE Story and Photos by Nicolette Johnson and Joe Ruckli
I met Alan Hillier today. He lives in a caravan park in Lightning Ridge, a small Australian mining town and the world’s richest source of FPEGO STEP ,I MW WM\X] WIZIR ]IEVW SPH ERH EPP XLEX LI LEW ½XW MRXS two suitcases. Alan’s life isn’t the romanticised existence he thought it would be. He places himself in the shadows of the community, amongst those who are now old and weathered by the harsh rural environment. As we spoke, the caravan was empty and quiet.The neighbouring caravans sat close together but not close enough for people to touch. I felt guilty when he offered his last beer. I couldn’t help but think that people who have so little give so much. What is obvious is that his dreams have been lost, his power has dissipated, and his life has been reduced to invisibility in a rented caravan. I wanted to make Alan visible. 44
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“My friends were like, ‘don’t come,’ but this was huge and it was happening in my city, and I felt like I needed to be there”. On the 26th of November 2008, ten Pakistan based members of XLI 0EWLOEV I 8EMFE 8IVVSVMWX SVKERM^EXMSR EVVMZIH SR XLI WLSVIW SJ Mumbai, starting an orchestrated terrorist attack across the Indian capital. They targeted Westerners at multiple tourist locations including the Taj Hotel, the Leopold Café, and the orthodox Jewish Nariman house.
All but one of the terrorists were captured and killed, the authorities got their information about the attacks from this one man, and traced their heritage back to Pakistan through him. Nariman House, that’s the Jewish Boarding House, was run by a Rabbi and his wife, and his wife was pregnant at the time. They went in and they held all those people inside hostage, and killed a lot of them; they killed the Rabbi and his wife. It was really scary that this could happen so close to me.
During the three day terrorist siege approximately 173 people were killed, as many as 120 hostages were taken and hundreds more were injured. It was during this chaotic time that second-year ePhotojournalism student, Kannagi Bhatt, arrived home to Mumbai. Compelled to bear witness, Kannagi retells her experience.
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The Indian Government is corrupt, very, very, corrupt, and everyone in the country was saying that they were sick of it. People are demanding change, so now the government is going to have to change, because of this. I was comfortable being there, I don’t know, I just felt like I had to do it.”
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THE BEAUTIFUL GAME Story and Photos by Dale de la Rey
The most popular sport in India is undoubtedly cricket. I recently spent two and a half months working in New Delhi, and being a huge cricket fan myself, I documented people playing their ‘beautiful game’ around every park and street corner. India’s oldest reference to cricket can be dated to the year 1725, when sailors played a friendly match at a seaport in Kutch. Today, GVMGOIX MW XLI YRSJ½GMEP REXMSREP WTSVX ERH MW IUYMZEPIRX MR TSTYPEVMX] XS JSSXFEPP MR &VE^MP -R TEVOW ERH ½IPHW WXVIIX PERIW ERH IQTX] GEV park spaces, adults and children battle it out in lively matches. 64
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HOPE Story and Photos by Victor Wu
I arrived in Cambodia with my donation, a ten kilogram bag of rice. Although this was only a small donation, the impact it ould have on the organisation was still vast, with even the smallest of donations being deeply appreciated in the orphans daily lives. However, there are many uncertainties that make it hard for the organisations to keep a stable learning environment for the children. 8LI 'EQFSHME (IZIPSTQIRX 3VKERM^EXMSR '(3 JSYRHIH F] Mr. Sean Samnang in 2008 is a non-governmental, non-political and RSR TVS½XEFPI SVKERMWEXMSR 2SVXL )EWX SJ 7MIQ 6IET 8LI '(3 has been seeking sponsorship since its establishment, with some SZIVWIEW SVKERMWEXMSRW ERH MRHMZMHYEPW SJJIVMRK TL]WMGEP ERH ½RERGMEP help. However, these generous donations are never enough to meet the increasing needs of the organisation. After leaving the CDO, I travelled to the Chres Village School ERH 3VTLEREKI ERSXLIV WMQMPEV SVKERM^EXMSR [LMGL MW PSGEXIH E 84
SRI LSYV HVMZI JVSQ HS[RXS[R 7MIQ 6IET -X MW E WMKRM½GERXP] larger facility with a capacity double that of the CDO. I had the opportunity to speak to a few of the orphans who are studying and living at the facility. It was to my surprise that the children could speak English quite well, in fact almost better than I do, as english is also my second language. As the school offers language studies, most of the students are able to speak more than just their native tongue, Khmer. Though like the CDO, the Chres Village School and Orphanage relies on donations and sponsorships, as well as volunteers as part time teachers, which are always resources that are always in shortage. ePhotojournalist Victor Wu travelled to Cambodia in 2010 to spend time documenting the lives of orphaned children and the fantastic work these organisations are doing to aid in the improvement of these children’s lives.
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SCARS Story and Photos by Ashley Schumann
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JC Epidemic BMX rider Shannon Birch practices his stunt tricks at their training compound, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland. Photo: Sophie Baker/ARGUS
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Two kids play beside a sluice in Cambodia. Photo:Victor Wu/ARGUS
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An abandoned church at sunrise in the opal mining town of Lightning Ride, NSW. Photo: Bridget Ferguson/ARGUS
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