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WM2-043a
Title Ben Bohane and David Bridie - Black Islands Photographs
Description THE BLACK ISLANDS


A Melanesian journey

Music by David Bridie

Photography by Ben Bohane


Our nearest neighbours. Shared history and geography. An important place in our destiny. One day we may come to remember, as our forefathers knew, that Australia is a Pacific nation first and fundamentally…


The Black Islands are the islands and nations of Melanesia and Australia, sweeping in a great arc from Timor, West Papua and Papua New Guinea to the Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia and Torres Strait in Australia.

Long time wantoks David Bridie and Ben Bohane are both distinguished in their fields of music and media. Both continue a relationship with Melanesia that spans the past 20 years.

Bridie has contributed much to the modern soundtrack of Melanesia and indigenous Australia, from raskol gang epiphanies and mouth harp melodies, to central desert strings and thepop-shantypleasure of dive-in-the-sea My Island Home.His versatility extends to classical and haunting compositions for film.

Bohane is a Vanuatu-based photojournalist working mainly in black and white, who has documented the spirit worlds of Pacific island life with a focus on kastom, and conflict. He traces a cycle of life; where lush island landscapes meet kastom, cult and cargo cult movements, guerrilla rebels, war and reconciliation, prophets and laughing children. Visual songs of redemption. And the sea, always the sea.

Together they seek to create an event, a live collaboration of music and imagery that celebrates and provokes, one that brings another generation of Australians to a realisation of their own immediate neighbourhood. This is the Pacific century, and like all great turnings in history, it is often best understood by the strange poetry at its margins.

The Black Islands promises to be more than a slideshow, less than an opera, and a unique Australian moment that first grounds you, then throws you overboard to northerly island shores and tempests and back again to the sacred earth we stand on.

We are wan solwara – one Ocean.Plunge in.
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WM2/043a
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David Bridie
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Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
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DOI 10.26278/9c0q-7z04
Cite as David Bridie (collector). Ben Bohane and David Bridie - Black Islands Photographs. JPEG/TIFF. WM2-043a at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/9c0q-7z04
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Collection Information
Collection ID WM2
Collection title Wantok Musik Foundation (WMF) - Music Label Recordings of Oceania Region.
Description The Wantok Musik Foundation is an Australian-based not-for-profit Music Label that records, releases and promotes culturally infused music from Indigenous Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. The brand “Wantok Musik” is a Melanesian term that reflects talking with a common language “one talk” although in the diverse cultures of the region that may have different sounds, different beats, different instruments, the music we all share is common and singing about the same things such as our history, our lore, our education, our hurts, our joys, our injustices, our struggles, our lives, our communities and our stories. This Collection preserves rich musical talents and artists of the Oceania region where the Wantok Musik Label through album recordings and collaborative projects has fostered cross-cultural initiatives and exchange. Through music and language within the diverse cultures of the region, we hear, share and learn about entertainers, performers and artistic and creative expressions where over the years, the Wantok Musik label has recorded, released and promoted of music from First Nation Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. Wantok Musik promotes local and international profile of First Nation and world music groups based in the region by supporting and providing greater economic opportunity for artists, long-term career sustainability at the same time by managing the various activities addresses social issues with creative and culturally focused approaches.
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