Ingetje Tadros
Renowned photographer and traveler Ingetje Tadros began a global photographic sojourn at seventeen.Leaving behind her small hometown of Bleiswijk in the Netherlands, she ambitiously set out to travel the planet.
Over the course of 30 years of regular travel, she has visited more than 45 countries across six continents, all the while capturing striking images of the world’s tribal people, and of lives and places that exist in relative obscurity.Her photography offers the viewer genuine moments of humanity and stunning expressive form.
Ingetje is always fully engaged with the people she encounters.The viewer never has the feeling she is pickpocketing people’s private sacred moments to enthrall us with mere cultural novelty.Her photographs neither intend to shock nor illicit sympathy; therefore, we can visually engage with Tadros’ subjects without the distortions imposed by a disparaging fog of pity.Through her great skill and sensitivity, she enhances our perceptions and engages us with the unfamiliar, enabling us to cast off our engrained, divisive tendencies – the formidable mental barriers that alienate “us” (the urban, economically-advantaged) from “them” (indigenous people and the world’s chronically poor and vulnerable).
In March of 2011, Ingetje published her first book, Tribal Ethiopia - a testament of her passion for documenting tribal people and championing issues of social justice.The book’s 286 photos document the indigenous tribes of the Omo River Valley and their plight as people threatened with the of loss of their ancestral homeland and economic livelihood to modern development; a proposed massive hydroelectric plant project would eventually flood their valley.
Over the course of her career she has been a volunteer photographer for the Amsterdam World Museum and a travel consultant for Nouvelles Frontieres.Ingetje currently freelances for Dutch-based Word Portraits and the Western Australian, a Perth newspaper.She is also a prodigious contributor to world-renowned Getty Images and Aurora Photos and now is free lancing for The Wideangle.She currently lives in Broome in Western Australia where she and her Egyptian-born husband own and run a Middle Eastern restaurant that also serves as an informal gallery for her work.
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Woodside's proposal to build a 45 billion dollar gas Hub at James Price Point in Western Australia has been dumped, after its initial plan was judged to be uneconomic.
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Woodside's convoy is locked out of Country as anti gas protesters locked on again, this time 5 people together and a silent protester blocking the road with ropes as a man made bed hangs in a tall gum tree.
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Anti-gas protesters were seen paddling around Sea Shepherd's vessel Steve Irwin, which arrived in Broome, as former Green's Leader Bob Brown joined the campaign against Woodside's $30 billion proposed gas hub at the Kimberley Coast.
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Former Federal Greens leader, Bob Brown, and Australian Director Jeff Hansen from Sea Shepherd arrived in Broome and will join the crew of the Environmental group's flagship the 'Steve Irwin' as part of an anti-gas campaign.
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Last year Broome families turned out in great numbers on Cable Beach to say "yes to what we have," this year we will sent the message again. "Broome does not want a gas hub on our doorstep.".
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Senator Bob Brown,leader of the Australian Greens and Senator Rachel Stewart, Australian Greens spokesperson for The Kimberley, returned to Broome pledging to fight to save The Kimberley from the Gas Hub by Woodside at James Price Point.
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About 30 protesters have lined the road to Woodside Petroleum's proposed $30 billion gas hub at James Price Point.
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62-year-old Julie Wegulin and 65-year-old Ali Batten, both grandmothers from Broome, halted work on the proposed James Price Point gas hub by locking themselves to a vehicle on 18 May 2012.
