First Nations LGBTQIA+ images / photographed by Jamie James

fonds

1998-2021

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9670151

21 photographs - digital, TIFFs, DNGs, colour

Jamie James (1968- ) is an Australian, Sydney-based documentary photographer who has been living in and collaborating with First Nations communities since the early 1980’s.

James specialises in telling stories of identity and belonging from the margins, and commercially freelances in the health, education and social justice sectors. James has been a regular contributor to the Koori Mail newspaper, covering many significant Indigenous events.

Reference: Library correspondence file

Collection of photographs documenting activities of the First Nations LGBTQI+ community in New South Wales. Subjects include the 'Queers for Reconciliation' float in the 1998 Sydney Mardi Gras parade, the 2018 Miss First Nations drag queen competition, Moogahlin Performing Arts events such as the 2019 Gras Blak Nulla cabaret, Diva for The Day and the 2020 Blak queer writing workshop and the Bowman-Golding wedding ceremony at the MCA, Sydney, 2021.

Item 01: The Goanna made by Moree mob, Queers for Reconciliation float, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1998 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 02: Davina (David Captain dec) Queers for Reconciliation float, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, 1998 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 03: Everyone's business, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, 1995 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 04: Icy Pole watches the parade after making the giant Goanna for the float, Moree mob, Queers for Reconciliation float, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1998 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 05: Lead banner, Queers for Reconciliation float, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1998 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 06: Noel (Noeline) Brown, Palm Island and Yarrabah mob, Queers for Reconciliation, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1998 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 07: Queers for Reconciliation float, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1998 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 08: Josie Baker, Miss Ellaneous, Felicia Foxx, Lacey Dunaman, Shaniqua TiwiSista and Marzi Panne at Miss First Nations final, Imperial Hotel, Erskineville, New South Wales, 2018 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 09: Miss Ellaneous, Koori Gras Black Nulla Cabaret, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, New South Wales, for Moogahlin Performing Arts, 2019 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 10: Felicia Foxx, Koori Gras Black Nulla Cabaret, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, New South Wales, for Moogahlin Performing Arts, 2019 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 11: Lacey Dunaman wins Miss First Nations final, Imperial Hotel, Erskineville, New South Wales, 2018 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 12: Nova Gina, Koori Gras Black Nulla Cabaret, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, New South Wales, for Moogahlin Performing Arts, 2019 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 13: Ben Graetz struts, Diva for a Day workshop, Koori Gras Carriageworks, Eveleigh, New South Wales, for Moogahlin Performing Arts, 2020 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 14: Diva for a Day workshop, Koori Gras Carriageworks, Eveleigh, New South Wales, for Moogahlin Performing Arts, 2020 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 15: Koori Gras Yellamundie Blak queer writers workshop, Seymour Centre, Sydney, for Moogahlin Performing Arts (including Moogahlin artistic director Dr Liza-Mare Syron and visiting writer Victor Rodger), 2020 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 16: Sean Bowman and Dennis Golding wedding, with dogs Walter and Percy, MCA rooftop, Sydney, 2021 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 17: Sean Bowman and Dennis Golding wedding, Indigenous dance ceremony, MCA, Sydney, 2021 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 18: Dennis Golding, First Nations artist in studio, Wooloomooloo, New South Wales, 2020 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 19: Timberlina, Lacey Dunaman, Shaniqua TiwiSista and Felicia Foxx in dressing room, Miss First Nations finals, Imperial Hotel, Erskineville, New South Wales, 2018 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 20: Destiny Haz Arrived (Colin Roberts) Koori Gras Black Nulla, Seymour Centre, Sydney for Moogahlin Performing Arts, 2020 / photograph by Jamie James
Item 21: Miss Ellaneous (Ben Graetz) Koori Gras Black Nulla, Seymour Centre, Sydney for Moogahlin Performing Arts, 2020 / photograph by Jamie James

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Jamie James
Reproduction Restricted:
Approval for reproduction required: from copyright holder
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Titles supplied by photographer