Photoessay: Melanesian mythical places with unreported conflicts: A portrait

As a photojournalist who has lived and journeyed through the ‘Black Islands’, Vanuatu resident Ben Bohane was drawn to them because they still seemed like mythical and remote places in an increasingly familiar world, while many of their conflicts went largely unreported. There were family connection...

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Autor principal:	Ben Bohane
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2014
Materias:	conflict journalism culture identity independence kastom language Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:307e5b37de824f45ba12f96bc87d92f22021-12-02T09:09:36ZPhotoessay: Melanesian mythical places with unreported conflicts: A portrait10.24135/pjr.v20i2.1701023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/307e5b37de824f45ba12f96bc87d92f22014-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/170https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035As a photojournalist who has lived and journeyed through the ‘Black Islands’, Vanuatu resident Ben Bohane was drawn to them because they still seemed like mythical and remote places in an increasingly familiar world, while many of their conflicts went largely unreported. There were family connections too. So beginning in 1994, he ran a naval blockade to cover the war in Bougainville and soon found others too, wars the rest of the world had conveniently forgotten: in East Timor, West Papua as well as Bougainville. Then there were riots in New Caledonia, civil war in the Solomon Islands and coups in Fiji. The following is an introductory extract and a portfolio of images from Bohane's 2013 monograph, Black Islands: Spirit and War in Melanesia. Caption: Radio Free Bougainville on the air with ‘Philip’ at the microphone. Central Bougainville, PNG 1994 (p. 157). © BEN BOHANE Ben BohaneAsia Pacific Networkarticleconflict journalismcultureidentityindependencekastomlanguageCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 20, Iss 2 (2014)
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description	As a photojournalist who has lived and journeyed through the ‘Black Islands’, Vanuatu resident Ben Bohane was drawn to them because they still seemed like mythical and remote places in an increasingly familiar world, while many of their conflicts went largely unreported. There were family connections too. So beginning in 1994, he ran a naval blockade to cover the war in Bougainville and soon found others too, wars the rest of the world had conveniently forgotten: in East Timor, West Papua as well as Bougainville. Then there were riots in New Caledonia, civil war in the Solomon Islands and coups in Fiji. The following is an introductory extract and a portfolio of images from Bohane's 2013 monograph, Black Islands: Spirit and War in Melanesia. Caption: Radio Free Bougainville on the air with ‘Philip’ at the microphone. Central Bougainville, PNG 1994 (p. 157). © BEN BOHANE
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title	Photoessay: Melanesian mythical places with unreported conflicts: A portrait
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Photoessay: Melanesian mythical places with unreported conflicts: A portrait

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