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<p>PHOTOJOURNALISM IS DEAD!!!</p>
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ON THE POWER OF IMAGES</p>
<p>PhotoJournalism, SPEAKING THROUGH A LENS</p>
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<p><strong>Who said photojournalism was dead?</strong></p>
<p>Sure, the time of hothead photographers who risked everything to get their rolls of film safely to publication has perhaps disappeared. And certainly the digital age and the proliferation of press agencies and cable networks have considerably changed the way photographers work. Better educated, equipped, and informed, even though they don&#8217;t risk as much to cover a conflict at the other end of the world, today&#8217;s generation still shares the same philosophy of the photojournalists of old: sharing the stories of the voiceless.</p>
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<p>That is the case, for example, of Cameron Herweynen, the young 24-year-old Australian photographer who has shed light on the plight of AIDS orphans in a moving photo essay shot in the small African state of Malawi. “I&#8217;d rather give dignity to the subject and focus on the positives, on the joy and love,” he says, his responses already formulated regarding the dilemmas and demons that all reporters inevitably face: the line between voyeurism and documentation, the aestheticization of pain, intrusion versus discretion, sentimentalism&#8230; In this perilous exercise the danger is not only physical. “Photography isn’t looking, it’s feeling,” insists the famous photographer Don Mc Cullin. “If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” No wonder the most important qualities in this profession are devotion and compassion.</p>
<p>One click has the power to suspend time, but not suffering. Some photographers have been driven mad, and some have become addicted. Famine, war, poverty, and in fact most often the cruelty of men amongst themselves, are their everyday subject. But however the photographers look at their subject, their eyes serve as the voice of the weakest, and so they choose to not close them but rarely. The young Cameron Herweynen doesn’t seem to have flinched before the challenge. Text &#8211; Stéphanie Ravel</p>
<p><img src="http://cameronherweynen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/p28-29.jpg" alt="cameron herweynen international award winning photographer" /><br />
Group Activities &#8211; Orphan Daycare Center, Blantyre, Malawi</p>
<p>WORDS FROM<br />
CAMERON HERWEYNEN&#8230;</p>
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<p><strong>Why the topic Aids Orphans and the country Malawi?</strong></p>
<p>Before the famine of 2005, I knew nothing about even the existence of the country of Malawi, let alone its people and the difficulties and suffering they face each day. The famine, caused by an epic failed harvest, ripped through the country killing thousands, putting Malawi on the map and on the news. The images I saw stirred me up inside, and I felt compelled to go and help in whatever way I could. I jumped at the first opportunity. It was in 2006, six months after the peak of the famine that I first visited Malawi as a volunteer. I had previously worked in child care at home, so was instantly assigned to work in one of the orphan daycare centers on the outskirts of Blantyre, run and funded by<br />
Malawian volunteers from the community. Many of the children had lost both parents to AIDS.</p>
<p>Being there to learn firsthand of the challenges faced by Malawians, I was amazed by their strength and determination to fight through, even though the fight against AIDS seems hopeless, reaching devastating levels and wiping out generations.</p>
<p>As a young photographer I wanted to document my experience and the beautiful Malawian people on film. My time in Malawi, especially the time with the orphans, was one of the most profound and fulfilling experiences of my life.<br />
While volunteering, I took photos whenever I got a chance. When I returned from my trip to Malawi I decided to put my images together as a series to raise awareness about the AIDS pandemic hitting Malawi.</p>
<p><img src="http://cameronherweynen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/p30-31.jpg" alt="malawi warm heart of africa" /><br />
Lunch Time &#8211; Orphan Daycare Center, Blantyre, Malawi</p>
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<p><strong>Tell us more about these orphans, their living conditions, and the place they hold in the society.</strong></p>
<p>In a space of just one week I visited a few daycare centers, most getting 100-200 children a day, caring for a total of 1,000 orphans from just one small area. So the numbers were overwhelming. I knew there were a lot of orphans in Africa, but to see so many with my own eyes in a small area of just a few villages was mind-blowing.</p>
<p>Orphans are downcast in society, they are rejected from both their family and the community, cast out into the street leaving them exposed and vulnerable. They are believed to have evil spirits and have to fend for themselves. Some are even met with violence, all simply because their parents have died. Denied an education because of their status, many don&#8217;t go past the basic learning that the daycare centers offer, growing up illiterate and lacking chances to find work when adults.</p>
<p>Family members will not take them as they&#8217;re seen as too much of a burden; or some simply cannot support another orphan child. In some cases the grandparents are left to look after the children, but struggle to feed themselves, let alone an orphan child, so they rely on the daycare centers to give the child food each day. The Malawian volunteers are amazing. With no governmental funding, and no payment (with many having their own families) they take care of these children every day from 8am to 4pm. This way, they manage to support hundreds of orphans.</p>
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<p><strong>How did you interact with them?</strong></p>
<p>I spent most of the day helping with games. We&#8217;d play ball games outside, or I&#8217;d help with play time (they had only a few scrap pieces of pages from books for the children to read). I helped with feeding the children. And I sat in on classes; the children were divided into groups and they&#8217;d each learn something. One group was taught how to wash, by using a doll as an example for them; others were taught how to write, with the whole group drawing with sticks in the dirt. They’d make the most of what little they had. I knew only a few words of Chechewa, which I&#8217;d often use, the children would love it! Really, it&#8217;s amazing how much you can communicate without speaking the same language.</p>
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<p><strong>How did you feel among them? As a young photographer how did you cope with the dramatic issue you were covering?</strong></p>
<p>I felt very comfortable around the children and Malawian people. All so warm and gentle and loving, I instantly felt at home. I was also profoundly challenged by their love, and willingness to look out for each other, even though they have nothing. There was so much love and joy too in the daycare centre, even though it was nothing more than a roof and dirt floor and walls.</p>
<p>Yet I couldn’t help but think of what would happen to them when they would grow out of the centre. These young children, most at the age of two years, really have no future. I felt powerless to help. The problem is so big.<br />
How did I cope then? It was best for me to focus on the positives, capture the joy and love of the children in the hope of getting awareness for them and their desperate situation. We must still hold a space for hope…</p>
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<p><strong>Not to focus on the misery, but rather on the dignity &#8211; do you think it is the best way to raise awareness on the issue?</strong></p>
<p>I did take some images of misery, but I would rather give dignity to the subject and focus as I said on the positives, on the joy and love.<br />
I think that sometimes people (viewers of the images) get easily turned off from confronting pictures of individuals in pain, even though they&#8217;re desperate. However, I focused not on the joy alone, but more on capturing powerful visions that could tell a story of the people and their situation, hoping viewers will respond to that.</p>
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<p><strong>Cameron Herweynen &#8211; photographer</strong></p>
<p>Capturing Humanity, Life &amp; Creation.</p>
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<p><strong>UNITED NATIONS AIDS INFO&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 15 million children under 18 have been orphaned as a result of AIDS. Around 11.6 million of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.</p>
<p>In countries badly affected by the epidemic such as Zambia and Botswana, it is estimated that 20 percent of children under 17 are orphans &#8211; most of whom have lost one or both parents to AIDS.</p>
<p>Even with the expansion of antiretroviral treatment access, it is estimated that by 2015, the number of orphaned children will still be overwhelmingly high.<br />
The number of orphans in some sub-Saharan African countries exceeds half a million, and, in some countries, children who have been orphaned by AIDS comprise half or more of all orphans nationally.</p>
<p>In 2007, there were 560,000 AIDS orphans in Malawi (1,400,000 in South Africa that year). And in 2005, 57% of all orphans were AIDS orphans in Malawi (77% in Zimbabwe that year).</p>
<p>Most of the AIDS orphans who live outside of Africa live in Asia, where the total number of orphans &#8211; orphaned for all reasons &#8211; exceeds 73 million. There is, however, insufficient information available to provide figures for the number of AIDS orphans in individual Asian countries.</p>
<p>(Source: UNAIDS (2008) &#8216;Report on the global AIDS epidemic&#8217; / Unicef (2006), ‘Africa’s Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations: Children Affected by AIDS’).</p>
<p>SUPPORT THE ORBUS ORPHAN PROGRAM. Caring for AIDS Orphans in Malawi Africa <a href="http://www.orbusafrica.org/">www.orbusafrica.org</a></p>
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<p>WORDS FROM THE EDITOR &#8211; Béatrice Grossi</p>
<p>At first, it’s just a photographic portrait, gripping, discovered on a casual trawl of the internet. Its subject is a child, seemingly African, firmly holding to his chest a small ball made of plastic bags. It’s an image that strikes one with unusual force, considering the passion with which the world is simultaneously following the first World Cup on African soil. The look on the child’s face intrigues me; it’s difficult to gauge the emotion it portrays.</p>
<p>A little bit of research later, I learn that the image (which by the way was used for a short while to promote a humanitarian campaign1), appeared in fact in a series of photos taken in Malawi in 2006 by a young Australian photographer, Cameron Heywenen. Asked about it, the photographer says, “I took this image, whilst in Mulanje, a remote rural area of Malawi. I was there visiting the Mulanje hospital and school. On this day I went with one of the nurses on her rounds, visiting the sick who were too sick to come to the hospital. It was such an amazing experience with the whole village coming out to see what all the fuss was about. Many rarely see a white man; some of the children freaked out thinking they&#8217;d seen a ghost! I had so many villagers all standing around me to greet me. And so it was in the moment – the shot is not set up. The young boy just stood like that and I was lucky to be able to capture it on film.”</p>
<p>The shot sparked intense discussions amongst the editorial team, united in the strong appeal of such a photographic composition and divided on the possible interpretations and usage of such a portrait. From there grew the desire for this summer issue to tackle this ongoing reflection on the power of images. It’s a broad theme which we’d be hard-pressed to explore in all its dimensions. We were very keen to do it, however; we who in our realm of cultural communication are the first to put these images to use.<br />
A tool for narration, description, explanation or argumentation. An excellent weapon that has seen its impact grow by tenfold in the wake of globalization. In an instant, a photo can offer everything, sometimes even too much.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s shed the spotlight on a creative field that has not yet ceased to captivate us.</p>
<p>Entire series on<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameronherweynen/">www.flickr.com/photos/cameronherweynen</a><br />
Cameron plans to return to Malawi in September 2010.<br />
More info about his portfolio on <a href="http://cameronherweynen.com">www.cameronherweynen.com</a></p>
<p>FRENCH:<br />
PhotoJournalisme, QUAND LES YEUX DONNENT LA PAROLE<br />
Qui a dit que le photoreportage était mort ?<br />
Certes le temps des photographes têtes brûlées qui risquaient tout pour que leurs films arrivent jusqu’à leur rédaction a peut-être disparu. Et surtout le tout numérique, la multiplication des agences de presse et des chaînes satellitaires ont considérablement changé la manière de travailler des photographes. Plus diplômée, plus équipée, plus avisée, même si elle ne s’endette plus pour couvrir un conflit à l’autre bout du monde, la relève partage pourtant toujours la même philosophie du photojournalisme: partager l’histoire des sans voix.</p>
<p>C’est par exemple le cas de Cameron Herweynen, jeune photographe Australien de 24 ans qui a mis en lumière le drame des orphelins du Sida en réalisant un reportage photo émouvant en Afrique dans le petit état du Malawi.</p>
<p>“J&#8217;ai préféré me concentrer sur les choses positives, sur la joie, l’amour, rendre sa dignité au sujet”. Cameron a déjà ses propres réponses aux dilemmes et démons auxquels les reporters doivent inlassablement faire face : limite entre voyeurisme et témoignage, esthétisation de la douleur, intrusion ou discrétion, sentimentalisme&#8230; Dans cet exercice périlleux, la mise en danger n’est pas seulement physique. “La photographie, ce n’est pas regarder mais ressentir” insiste le célèbre photoreporter Don Mc Cullin. “Si tu ne peux pas ressentir ce que tu observes, tu ne pourras jamais amener les autres à ressentir quelque chose lorsqu’ils regarderont tes photos”. C’est pourquoi les premières qualités requises de cette profession sont la dévotion et la compassion.</p>
<p>Un click a le pouvoir de suspendre le temps, mais pas la souffrance. Certains en sont devenus fous, d’autres accros. La famine, la guerre, la pauvreté, en fait, le plus souvent, la cruauté des hommes entre eux, sont leur lot quotidien, mais quelque soit le regard que posent les photographes sur leur sujet, leurs yeux deviennent la voix des plus faibles, c’est pourquoi tous ont choisi de ne les fermer que rarement.</p>
<p>Le jeune Cameron Herweynen ne semble pas reculer devant le challenge.<br />
Texte &#8211; Stéphanie Ravel</p>
<p>Mots de Cameron Herweynen&#8230;</p>
<p>Pourquoi ce sujet, les Orphelins du Sida, et ce pays, le Malawi ?</p>
<p>Avant la famine de 2005, j’ignorais jusqu’à l’existence de ce pays, et n’avais aucune idée des difficultés et des souffrances quotidiennes de son peuple. La famine, causée par une récolte catastrophique, a touché tout le pays, faisant des milliers de morts, et révélant finalement le Malawi aux yeux du monde entier. Les images que j’ai vues m’ont remué, et je me suis senti obligé d’aller aider de quelque manière que je puisse. J’ai sauté sur la première opportunité. Ce fut en 2006, six mois après le pic de la famine, que je fis ma première visite au Malawi en tant que volontaire. J’avais déjà travaillé dans des centres pour l’enfance dans mon pays, et fus donc immédiatement assigné à un des centres d’accueil de jour pour les orphelins dans la banlieue de Blantyre. Ces centres sont financés et dirigés par des volontaires malawites au sein de la communauté. Ils accueillent des enfants, qui pour beaucoup, sont orphelins à cause du Sida.</p>
<p>En observant sur le terrain les défis auxquels sont confrontés les Malawites, j’ai été impressionné par leur force et leur détermination au combat, en dépit du fait que la lutte contre le Sida semble sans espoir, atteignant des niveaux dévastateurs, emportant des générations entières.</p>
<p>En tant que jeune photographe, je voulais documenter cette expérience et graver sur la pellicule ce magnifique peuple malawite. Le temps que j’ai passé au Malawi, et tout particulièrement le temps passé auprès des orphelins, a été une des expériences les plus profondes et les plus enrichissantes de ma vie.<br />
Dès que je le pouvais, tout en faisant mon travail de volontaire, j’ai pris des photos. A mon retour, j’ai décidé d’organiser une série à partir de mes clichés, pour mieux faire connaître cette pandémie de Sida qui touche le Malawi.</p>
<p>Parlez-nous de ces orphelins, de leurs conditions de vie, et de la place qu’ils occupent dans la société.<br />
En l’espace d’une semaine, j’ai visité plusieurs centres d&#8217;accueil de jour, la plupart recevant 100 à 200 enfants quotidiennement, s’occupant d’un total de 1000 orphelins dans une seule petite zone. Les chiffres sont accablants. Je savais qu’il y avait de nombreux orphelins en Afrique, mais le voir de mes propres yeux, dans un espace ne regroupant que quelques villages, était dévastateur.</p>
<p>Les orphelins sont mis au banc de la société, rejetés par la famille et la communauté, abandonnés dans la rue, exposés et vulnérables, livrés à eux-mêmes. Ils sont souvent accusés d’être habités par des mauvais esprits, certains même subissant des violences physiques, simplement parce que leurs parents sont morts. Ne recevant pas d’éducation à cause de leur statut, beaucoup ne dépassent pas les bases minimales enseignées par les centres d’accueil. Ainsi ils grandissent illettrés et ne peuvent trouver de travail à l’âge adulte.</p>
<p>Les membres de leurs familles ne les accueillent pas, car ils constituent un fardeau, et beaucoup ne peuvent tout simplement pas s’occuper d’un orphelin de plus. Dans certains cas, les grands-parents sont seuls à s’occuper des enfants, mais ils ont déjà du mal à se nourrir eux-mêmes, alors ils dépendent des centres d’accueil pour nourrir l’enfant au quotidien. Les volontaires malawites sont fantastiques : sans financement, sans salaire (alors que beaucoup ont leurs propres familles), ils s’occupent des enfants tous les jours de 8:00 à 16:00. De cette manière, ils soutiennent des centaines d’orphelins.</p>
<p>Quelles étaient vos activités avec eux ?</p>
<p>La majeure partie du temps, je participais à des jeux, nous jouions au ballon dehors, ou à l’espace loisirs (ils n’avaient que quelques pages de livres pour enfants à lire); j’aidais également à les nourrir. Je m’asseyais aussi en classe; les enfants étaient répartis en groupes, et chacun des groupes apprenait quelque chose : à se laver par exemple, en prenant une poupée comme exemple; à écrire, avec les enfants dessinant les mots avec un bout de bois sur le sol. Ils utilisaient du mieux qu&#8217;ils pouvaient le peu dont ils disposaient.</p>
<p>Je ne parlais que quelques mots de Chechewa, que j’utilisais souvent avec les enfants; ils adoraient ça ! C’est vraiment incroyable comment on peut communiquer sans parler la même langue.</p>
<p>Comment vous sentiez-vous parmi eux ? En tant que jeune photographe, comment avez-vous réagi face au problème dramatique que vous documentiez ?</p>
<p>Je me sentais très à l’aise parmi les enfants et le peuple malawite. Tous sont si doux, chaleureux, pleins d’amour, je me suis senti tout de suite chez moi. J’ai été profondément touché par leur amour et leur capacité à s’occuper les uns des autres, bien qu’ils n’aient rien. Il y avait beaucoup d’amour et de joie dans le centre, bien qu’il ne s’agisse que d’un toit, d’un sol sale et de quelques murs.</p>
<p>Mais je ne pouvais également m’empêcher de penser à ce qu’ils deviendraient en grandissant et en quittant le centre. Ces jeunes enfants, dont la plupart avaient autour de deux ans, n’ont vraiment aucun avenir. Je me suis senti impuissant à aider. Le problème est tellement immense.<br />
Comment ai-je géré cette situation ? Le mieux était de s’attacher aux choses positives, de saisir la joie et l’amour des enfants, avec l’espoir de susciter un intérêt pour eux et leur situation catastrophique. Il faut garder une petite place pour l’espoir…</p>
<p>Ne pas se concentrer sur la misère, mais plutôt sur la dignité; pensez-vous que ce soit la meilleure manière de susciter l’intérêt ?</p>
<p>J’ai pris des images de misère, mais je préfère rendre sa dignité au sujet et m’intéresser, comme je l&#8217;ai dit, aux côtés positifs, à la joie et à l’amour. Je pense que parfois les gens (ceux qui regardent les images) sont facilement écoeurés par la vision d’humains qui souffrent, même s’ils sont désespérés. Cela dit, je ne m’attarde pas que sur la joie, j’essaie de capturer des moments importants qui racontent l’histoire d’un peuple et de sa situation, en espérant que les spectateurs répondront à ça.</p>
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Cameron plans to return to Malawi in September 2010.<br />
More info about his portfolio on <a href="http://cameronherweynen.com">www.cameronherweynen.com</a></p>
<p>EDITO &#8211; Béatrice Grossi</p>
<p>Au départ, c’est juste un portrait photographique, accrocheur, découvert au détour d’une banale navigation d’internaute. Fixant l’objectif, un enfant, que j&#8217;imagine d&#8217;un pays d&#8217;Afrique, et qui tient, pressé contre sa poitrine, un modeste ballon fait de sacs plastiques. Une image qui frappe l’oeil avec d’autant plus de force que toute la planète suit au même moment avec passion le tout premier mondial de foot en terre africaine. Le regard lancé par le gamin m&#8217;interpelle. Difficile cependant de saisir avec certitude l’émotion ici exprimée.</p>
<p>Petite investigation. J&#8217;apprends que l’image &#8211; associée un court moment à une campagne humanitaire1, appartient en fait à une série de photos réalisées en 2006 au Malawi par un jeune photographe australien, Cameron Herweynen. Contacté, l’auteur raconte : « J&#8217;ai pris cette photo, alors que je me trouvais à Mulanje, une zone rurale isolée du Malawi. Je m&#8217;y étais rendu pour visiter son hôpital et son école. Ce jour-là, j&#8217;étais parti avec l&#8217;une des infirmières rendre visite aux malades qui étaient bien trop faibles pour venir à l&#8217;hôpital. Ce fut réellement une incroyable expérience, tout le village était là dehors et cherchait à savoir pourquoi j&#8217;étais ici. Pour beaucoup, il est très peu courant de voir un homme blanc; quelques enfants même prirent peur, pensant avoir rencontré un fantôme! J&#8217;avais tant de villageois réunis autour de moi pour me saluer. Tout se déroula en un instant – le portrait n&#8217;est pas posé. Le jeune garcon s&#8217;est tenu ainsi et j&#8217;ai eu la chance de pouvoir capturer cette image ».</p>
<p>Le cliché suscite de riches discussions au sein de l’équipe, unie sur la forte attractivité d’une telle composition photographique, divisée sur les possibles interprétations et utilisations d’un tel portrait. De là, plus qu&#8217;une envie grandissante pour ce numéro d’été, celle de reprendre cette continuelle réflexion sur le pouvoir des images. Un vaste thème, dont on n’aura certainement qu’à peine effleuré toutes les dimensions. Mais qu’il nous tenait finalement à coeur d&#8217;approcher, nous, qui, au travers de notre support même de communication culturelle, sommes bien les premiers à faire grand usage du visuel.</p>
<p>Outil de narration, de description, d’explication ou d’argumentation. Une arme d&#8217;excellence, qui a vu son impact décupler suite à la mondialisation des échanges. En un instant, une photo peut tout offrir. Parfois peut-être trop même.</p>
<p>Coup de projecteur sur un champ de création qui n&#8217;en a pas fini de nous captiver&#8230;</p>
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		<title>PUBLISHED PORTFOLIO: &#8216;Children of Arnhem Land&#8217; – Image Portfolio &#8211; by photographer Cameron Herweynen &#8211; published in Australian Traveller Magazine</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rising talent Cameron Herweynen recently returned from the Indigenous Garma Festival on the Gove Peninsula. Although it’s his third year running at the North East Arnhem Land event, it never ceases to amaze. And neither do his captivating images.</p>
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<p>OPENING IMAGE: This boy was one of the feathered dancers in the daily afternoon bunggul dance ceremony. In the previous shot I took, he was much less serious, playfully sticking out his tongue. All the other children were jumping around me excitedly shouting, “you picture me, you picture me!”</p>
<p>When Cameron Herweynen was a kid, his art teacher would joke about him becoming a famous photographer one day, and that she’d be sitting in her retirement home flicking through his photos in magazines. Impressed by the shots he took on his dad’s old Minolta, she encouraged him to borrow an automatic Nikon SLR for a trip to Poland – a loan which, Cameron says, ignited his passion for photography and “changed everything.”</p>
<p>It was a post-school trip to war-ravaged Cambodia and his first encounter with the third world that gave Cameron the inspiration to progress from architecture photography to portraiture and social documentary. Through capturing the faces and expressions of his subjects, he discovered how powerful a medium photography can be. Encouraged and enlivened by this potent new way of seeing things, he’s never looked back.</p>
<p>Cameron has since travelled to <span id="more-327"></span> Malawi, Italy, India and Puerto Rico to shoot, was a finalist for the prestigious Leica Award in 2007, and winner of the World Nomads Travel Photography Award the same year. At the still tender age of 22, he’s well on his way to proving his art teacher right.</p>
<p>It was his World Nomads Award prize that first took him to the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land – a vast celebration of the Yolngu people’s cultural inheritance – and this August he returned for the third time in as many years. When Cameron speaks of Garma and his encounters with the Yolngu, there is unbridled warmth in his voice; it’s obvious he feels a strong emotional link to the annual event, as well as a great sense of privilege. “They are loving, open and profoundly connected to their culture,” he says. “It’s always the highlight of my year.” Believing his best shots to be the simplest and least controlled, he doesn’t wish to uncover any hidden meaning, but to let the easy, honest beauty of Garma and its people do the talking and reveal the truth.</p>
<p>Next year, Cameron says, he’d like to dig deeper into Aboriginal culture and spend a longer period of time in an Indigenous community. He’d also like to travel around South America taking photos, particularly of the Brazilian rainforest. We get the feeling there’s much more to come from this rapidly emerging talent. Watch this space.</p>
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<p>IMAGES ABOVE: LEFT: This image is my favorite of the lot. She walked right up to me smiled, reached out and scrunched up her nose. Sunlight streaming through the trees. Everything just came together. A year later I was lucky enough to photograph the same girl again bursting with joy and excitement as she played with her friends.</p>
<p>RIGHT: A beautiful little girl &#8211; so full of joy and beaming with life. She was buzzing around my camera pulling all kinds of faces, pretending to be a tiger, then laughing at herself. At this moment I was surrounded by so many beautifully painted faces, it was overwhelming. I literally just had to keep my finger on the shutter, there was so much happening.</p>
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<p>IMAGE LEFT: I was trying to photograph this boy just before the bunggul started. His entire clan were all shouting for him to look at the camera, but he wouldn’t. In the end I was glad to have captured this more natural, thought-provoking expression.</p>
<p>RIGHT: Another of the feathered dancers. This young boy simply couldn’t stop jumping, dancing and singing! I had to ask him to stand still more a moment so I could quickly get this one steady shot.</p>
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<p>IMAGE LEFT: A young guy from the Red Flag Mob, waiting for his turn on the bunggul ground. The Red Flag dancers are spectacular; full of energy as they kick up the sand with their feet high up into the air, dancing with large bright red flags in their hands. They were all decorated in paint from head to toe, and wore bright red sarongs and bandanas.</p>
<p>RIGHT: This photo is of a group of children swinging around a pole at the end of the bunggul ground, just outside the canteen. I had great fun taking several pictures of them, but this one was the best.</p>
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<p>IMAGE LEFT: A third feathered dancer. This guy was a warrior, who in a previous shot had been wielding a brightly painted spear and staring threateningly down the lens. Here he is more contemplative, and looks away.</p>
<p>RIGHT: I just love this photo! Such a loving embrace between a father and his child as they waited for their clan’s turn to dance. Photography is all about anticipation, and being ready for precious moments such as this one. For me it doesn’t get much better than this moment.</p>
<p>&#8216;Children of Arnhem Land&#8217; -Image Portfolio &amp; article published in <a href="http://www.australiantraveller.com/component/content/article/4269">Australian Traveller Magazine</a> - Issue 29  Oct/Nov 2009</p>
<p>Words by Flora King - Photography by Cameron Herweynen</p>
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<p>Young children from a Yolngu school perform their own bunggul, telling a story of the birds of the sky to a crowd of onlookers. Their striking face paint designs symbolise bird varieties.</p>
<p>The aboriginal people of Australia are famously private, preferring to keep their time-honored practices to themselves. But occasionally a photographer is privileged with the chance to experience their traditional ways of life firsthand. Cameron Herweynen was one such photographer, allowed to intimately photograph the Yolngu people’s Garma Festival after winning the World Nomads Award for his photography. Since then, Cameron has attended the event annually as part of the effort of the Yothu Yindi Foundation, which works to preserve the Yolngu’s customs. Located in Gulkula, on the Gove Peninsular in far northeastern Arnhem Land, NT Australia, Garma is a vast celebration of the Yolngu people, a culture that is among the oldest on earth, with a history stretching back more than 40,000 years. The Garma Festival <span id="more-415"></span> attracts thousands of Yolngu, with more than 20 clan groups from throughout Arnhem Land coming together to celebrate through dance (bunggul), song (manikay), art and ceremony. Captured through Cameron’s lens, its a spectacle of colour and performing art that pays testament to a rich heritage.</p>
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<p>LEFT: Image of the Red Flag mob at nighttime, one of the more spectacular performances. The whole clan sports large red flags that are waved around as they kick up the sand high up into the air. TOP RIGHT: Aerial view of the red rocky land of Arnhem Land, flying over Gove towards Elcho Island. BOTTOM RIGHT: A young lady having her face painted with yellow ochre paint. The face painting before the evening bunggul is a very intimate time of delicate creation. The woman who have already been painted are all standing around a makeshift fire of twigs and leaves to keep warm, waiting for their clan’s turn to dance on the sacred ground.</p>
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<p>LEFT: Young yolngu girl with her dramatic face paint. TOP RIGHT: A group of children swing playfully around a pole at the end of the of the bunggul ground. BOTTOM RIGHT: The yellow ochre for the paint is ground onto a large flat rock, and mixed with water. “It was a huge honor for me to have their permission to experience this profound ceremony,” Herweynen says. “These beautifully painted women were so proud of their painted faces, all shyly giggling after each photo I took. One lady came over and said ‘Take a photo of me! I want to be a model!’”</p>
<p>Celebration Australia - Portfolio &amp; article published in Etihad Inflight Magazine - Issue Nov 2009</p>
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<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-606" href="http://cameronherweynen.com/2010/06/outdoor/outdoor/"></a>WHERE: Gulkula, North East Arnhem Land, NT Australia. WHAT: Garma Festival. PHOTOGRAPHY: Cameron Herweynen.</p>
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<p>Australia’s leading cultural exchange event, the 11th Garma Festival, took places in Arnhem Land this year on 7-11 August. A celebration of Yolngu &#8211; among the oldest living cultures on earth at more than 40,000 years &#8211; the Garma is held with the aim of sharing this knowledge and culture. <span id="more-329"></span> Mandawuy Yunupingu, community leader and member of the Yolngu people, as well as lead singer of Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi, explains of the event, “We’re living in fluid times, trying to discover in more profound ways what it is to be Australian. I think the vast majority of Australians would agree that Aboriginal Australians have a special contribution to make to that. But there seems to be a problem. I think most non-Aboriginal Australians accept that there is a deep intellectual strength to Aboriginal knowledge, but they seem to think of it as a mystery. I hope we are less of a mystery now.”</p>
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<p>For a few days in February, the world’s attention was focused on Australia as our worst-ever bushfires disaster unfolded, claiming hundreds of lives in Victoria. Simon Mossman speaks to several photographers who documented the devastation.</p>
<p>There’s no denying that often the most powerful images are produced in the most shocking of circumstances. The photographers, in particular had to get closer than most to the devastation and destruction if they were to accurately document the event. For some it was the job, for others, a calling of sorts. For all though it was a challenging and no doubt barrowing experience, no matter how professional they are.</p>
<p>Travel and social documentary photographer Cameron Herweynen felt a different sense of purpose in covering the disaster after learning that two old school friends perished in the blaze that ripped through the Kinglake region, northeast of Melbourne. Another friend living in nearby St Andrews stayed on to defend his home but ultimately survived.</p>
<p>“I guess I felt compelled to <span id="more-330"></span> do something, to document what was unfolding in front of us,” Herweynen says. “Because it was so close to home, I just wanted to go up there. I was not really thinking too much about it from a work perspective, about getting commissions out of it, I was really just thinking about covering it. I felt it was my duty. I’ve never covered anything like it before,” he says.</p>
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<p>(and the article continues)&#8230;</p>
<p>Check out all my &#8216;Taste of Ashes&#8217; images of the aftermath of Black Saturday, in my <a href="http://cameronherweynen.com/galleries/documentary/">DOCUMENTARY GALLERY</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful inter]]></description>
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<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-540" href="http://cameronherweynen.com/2010/05/cameronherweynen-com/_mg_7742/"></a>Hey!  Welcome to my new photography site and blog, which I hope will engage you! I’ll be regularly adding new material, so please check back frequently!</p>
<p>The purpose of www.cameronherweynen.com is to showcase my very best travel and documentary photography, with highlights of my published work. I hope this site will give you a greater appreciation for our world as together we explore our humanity, and the beauty in creation, through my photography and video.</p>
<p>This blog is an image-focused space where I can share my latest photos, with news and info of current projects to compliment my site. I may do some retrospective stuff to fill you in on the past, and as I travel, will be sure to put my experiences into words… just have to see where it take us.</p>
<p>I designed the site, striving to create a powerful platform where I can share my photography. Going for a clean minimal design, with large images and easy navigation. Moving away from Flash and into the exciting world of WordPress and HTML, complete with an integrated archive, where you can search through all my images.</p>
<p>If you have any suggestions or criticisms or questions, please send me an email, I&#8217;d love to hear from you.</p>
<p>Email: <a href="mailto:info@cameronherweynen.com">info@cameronherweynen.com</a></p>
<p>Thanks for looking! Have fun!</p>
<p>Cameron Herweynen photographer     Specialising in Travel Photography and Social Documentary Photography.</p>
<p>Humanity, life and creation.       <a href="http://www.cameronherweynen.com">www.cameronherweynen.com</a></p>
<p>Coconut photo captured on P<em>iñones Beach, in San Juan, Puerto Rico (whilst on assignment for Morning Calm magazine)</em></p>
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