Photographs from the Nucoorilma community of Tingha, New South Wales, by members of the local Aboriginal community

fonds

2023

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9680837

65 photographs - digital, TIFF, colour

65 digital photographs showing people, the natural environment and conditions at Tingha, New South Wales. The images were taken by 13 members of the Nucoorilma Community, including: Aunty Sue Blacklock, Aunty Val Munro, Brendon 'Beno' Anderson, Cassie Campbell, Jarrod Cubby, Kisani Upward, Michael Munro, Naomi Munro, Sarah-Lee Kennedy, Sasha Duncan, Tristan Briggs, Uncle Paul Munro and Uncle Tom Campbell.

Item 01: We built our fires here / photograph by Aunty Sue Blacklock
Item 02: Tingha Songline / photograph by Aunty Sue Blacklock
Item 03: Teaching our youth / photograph by Aunty Sue Blacklock
Item 04: Growing up on Country / photograph by Aunty Sue Blacklock
Item 05: Culture and Power / photograph by Aunty Sue Blacklock
Item 06: A far-away look / photograph by Aunty Val Munro
Item 07: A far-away look / photograph by Aunty Val Munro
Item 08: A far-away look / photograph by Aunty Val Munro
Item 09: Bassendean / photograph by Aunty Val Munro
Item 10: BTTCS Hub, Tingha / photograph by Aunty Val Munro
Item 11: Scar tree / photograph by Brendon 'Beno' Anderson
Item 12: Bassendean / photograph by Brendon 'Beno' Anderson
Item 13: Uncle Tom / photograph by Brendon 'Beno' Anderson
Item 14: The ochre vein / photograph by Brendon 'Beno' Anderson
Item 15: Old Bottom / photograph by Brendon 'Beno' Anderson
Item 16: Dad / photograph by Cassie Campbell
Item 17: We grew up playing here / photograph by Cassie Campbell
Item 18: My family on Country / photograph by Cassie Campbell
Item 19: What once was burnt, now is found / photograph by Cassie Campbell
Item 20: Fly / photograph by Cassie Campbell
Item 21: Old man watching / photograph by Jarrod Cubby
Item 22: Learning / photograph by Jarrod Cubby
Item 23: Tingha Lookout / photograph by Jarrod Cubby
Item 24: Mount Topper / photograph by Jarrod Cubby
Item 25: Nucoorilma Country / photograph by Jarrod Cubby
Item 26: Even Trees Bleed / photograph by Kisani Upward
Item 27: Inconvenient Beauty / photograph by Kisani Upward
Item 28: Without intervention, this is our future / photograph by Kisani Upward
Item 29: Tingha Lookout / photograph by Kisani Upward
Item 30: The Wonder / photograph by Sasha Duncan
Item 31: Some things will never recover / photograph by Michael Munro
Item 32: Two-toned ochre / photograph by Michael Munro
Item 33: Salt Bush / photograph by Michael Munro
Item 34: Aunt Sue Blacklock / photograph by Michael Munro
Item 35: Beno (Brendon Anderson), the backbone of BTTCS / photograph by Michael Munro
Item 36: The colours of Country / photograph by Naomi Munro
Item 37: Reborn / photograph by Naomi Munro
Item 38: Childhood / photograph by Naomi Munro
Item 39: Mount Topper / photograph by Naomi Munro
Item 40: Old Bottom / photograph by Naomi Munro
Item 41: Walking with my Ancestors / photograph by Sarah-Lee Kennedy
Item 42: The pigs are pigs / photograph by Sarah-Lee Kennedy
Item 43: Feeling Country between my fingers / photograph by Sarah-Lee Kennedy
Item 44: Bassendean / photograph by Sarah-Lee Kennedy
Item 45: Bassendean / photograph by Sarah-Lee Kennedy
Item 46 The natural formation of the Polysemic Symbol / photograph by Kisani Upward
Item 47: Tingha, My Home / photograph by Sasha Duncan
Item 48: Building the Tingha Community Spirit / photograph by Sasha Duncan
Item 49: My family, my home / photograph by Sasha Duncan
Item 50: Old Bottom / photograph by Sasha Duncan
Item 51: Bassendean Creek / photograph by Tristan Briggs
Item 52: Scar Trees of Bassendean / photograph by Tristan Briggs
Item 53: The Creek / photograph by Tristan Briggs
Item 54: Scars / photograph by Tristan Briggs
Item 55: A bunch of caterpillars / photograph by Tristan Briggs
Item 56: The risk of fire continues / photograph by Uncle Paul Munro
Item 57: The way it's supposed to be / photograph by Uncle Paul Munro
Item 58: Let us care for Country / photograph by Uncle Paul Munro
Item 59: Nucoorilma Country / photograph by Uncle Paul Munro
Item 60: BTTCS Hub, Tingha / photograph by Uncle Paul Munro
Item 61: Wasted wood / photograph by Uncle Tom Campbell
Item 62: Keep Out / photograph by Uncle Tom Campbell
Item 63: Reflection / photograph by Uncle Tom Campbell
Item 64: Old Bottom / photograph by Uncle Tom Campbell
Item 65: Firewood / photograph by Uncle Tom Campbell

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

These photographs were included in the exhibition "Guwiinbarraan: Close to Fire" at the Armidale Cultural Centre & Keeping Place in January 2024, curated by University of New England PhD candidate Kisani Upward. The photographers are all associated with the Building the Tingha Community Spirit Aboriginal Corporation (BTTCS).