Curtis Taylor is a young guy we met out at Parnngurr when on the last Pilbara Project shoot. Curtis works with Martu Media, a program of Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa. He has produced short films that describe the history and culture of Parnngurr (Cotton Creek), his home community in Martu Country, for the project’s multimedia installation One Road. He is studying film making so him and Michael hit it off straight away. He was kind enough to show us around his land. It is a spectacular place and standing on the hill above town he pointed out to us where his peoples land extended to. Off in the distance were lots of hills and plateaus all begging to be explored. I must get back there soon. There was something about being so remote that felt great. And just to show how small the world is I bumped into a Dunsborough guy who is living out there and doing volunteer work in the community. It blew me away. I love this portrait of Curtis, you can see he is a strong, proud fellow. Will be keen to see his work.
Shot with the Phase One P65+ and the glorious 80mm Schneider, hows the bokeh!!
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Proud, strong and very strong character, I like him and the shot! Bokeh is pretty insane, did you borrow a lens from Stanley Kubrick?
This is something I’d love to do, spent months doing some sort of volunteer work in a community and having the opportunity to do stills and video and document it. Someday I will definitely do that.
Great portrait! Would love to see more shots like this from that trip you did.
I’m heading to the Pilbara in a few weeks, can’t wait! Not to photograph cool places or people though, just a power station!
They are indeed very proud people. A great honest portrait mate.
Cheers
Dave
Nice colour tones in this pic CF, suits the subject well in my opinion.
Sweet shot little buddy!