Current Issue
Eco-journalism and security
Vol 12(2), September 2006
Photoessay
- Ben Bohane’s portrayal of spirit and war in Melanesia Bec Dean pp 157-174
1. WEST PAPUA: An OPM guerrilla with cassowary headdress during an independence flag-raising ceremony in the Highlands, 1995.
2. WEST PAPUA: A sanguma (spirit) man in the Highlands welcomes Ben Bohane to his Nduga village.
3. WEST PAPUA: Women dance and welcome OPM guerrillas into their Nduga village in the Highlands.
4. WEST PAPUA: A Dani man walks through Wamena against a backdrop of town life and mosque.
5. WEST PAPUA: An OPM guerrilla from Central Command in the Highlands.
6. WEST PAPUA: An OPM guerrilla from Central Command in the Highlands above Freeport mine.
7. WEST PAPUA: OPM guerrillas from Central Command perform a traditional war dance in teeming rain.
8. WEST PAPUA: Nduga tribesmen prepare a pig feast during an OPM rally in Central Command.
9. BOUGAINVILLE: BRA guerrillas pose with a fleet of destroyed 200 tonne dump trucks at Panguna mine.
10. BOUGAINVILLE: BRA leader Francis Ona (in bush hat and holding a samurai sword) and some of his men at Guava village, 1994.
11. BOUGAINVILLE: BRA guerrilla at the destroyed Panguna mine.
12. BOUGAINVILLE: PNG Defence Force and Resistance forces respond to a grenade explosion while on patrol. The use of sorcery was an important but unreported element of the war, 1997.
13. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: A raskol from the Kips Kaboni gang in his Port Moresby hideout, 2005.
14. ASIA-PACIFIC BORDER: Canoes at dusk on the Fly River, which separates Papua New Guinea from the Indonesian-ruled province of Papua, 1997.
