{"id":78412,"date":"2021-10-01T04:57:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=78412"},"modified":"2021-09-28T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T05:26:15","slug":"west-papua-foto-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/west-papua-foto-biennale\/","title":{"rendered":"Fotos voice West Papuan perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRADES Hall is the host of Ballarat International Foto Biennale exhibition, <em>Understanding the Pacific through the independence struggles of the Moluccans and West Papuans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Organised by the Free West Papua Ballarat Support Group, the show presents the photography of Tommy Latu, an Australian advocate of West Papua and Maluku independence, who is originally from Sumatra and has Maluku ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Latu\u2019s father was part of the Indonesian Army. In 1975, Latu was a child who witnessed \u201cparades of soldiers and tanks\u201d ahead of Indonesia\u2019s invasion of East Timor, and he remembers it well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI work my camera to inform and advocate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFew Australians know about West Papua and Maluku except as tourist destinations or World War Two battle sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope [my images] inspire you to support our independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Louise Byrne has curated the exhibition which includes 20 years\u2019 worth of captures of West Papuans, advocates and allies, assemblies, political events, cultural festivals, freedom forums, musical performances, and more, all through Latu\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Images have been taken in West Papua, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, at Melbourne\u2019s Shrine of Remembrance, St Augustine\u2019s Catholic Church, Federation Square, St Kilda, Docklands, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Pipemakers Park in Maribyrnong, Parliament House in Canberra, Darwin and even Bakery Hill, Ballarat.<\/p>\n<p>Ballarat Trades Hall is the meeting place of the Free West Papua Ballarat Support Group.<\/p>\n<p>Annually, the group raises the West Papuan flag, the Morning Star, on 1 December, in recognition of West Papuan peoples\u2019 fight for independence against the Indonesian military.<\/p>\n<p><em>Understanding the Pacific through the independence struggles of the Moluccans and West Papuans <\/em>is scheduled to run until Sunday, 24 October at Trades Hall on Camp Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRADES Hall is the host of Ballarat International Foto Biennale exhibition, Understanding the Pacific through the independence struggles of the Moluccans and West Papuans. 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