From my scuba diving trips to West-Papua in Indonesia I have a collection of portrait images of local people. - Visit my gallery at link.These images have been shot when visiting villages along the West-Papua coast line on a boat trip to the very remote Triton Bay in 2009.
Unfortunately we never visited the mountain regions of the West-Papua main land.
Most of these people did not see any tourists for several years and hence were very curious to know how this works with all the cameras we were carrying along.A special experience was the curiosity especially of the kids when starting to communicate.
Immediately we were invited to meet the chief of the village, to visit the local school - which apparently was missing a teacher at the time, or the medical center - which was missing a doctor.
Interesting was also to see the mixture of people living in these remote villages.
Some of them were clearly of Papuan origin while others seemed to be immigrants from either the Maluku Islands, Java, or Sulawesi.
Along the coast the immigration and influence from eastern Indonesia is clearly visible while original Papuas preserving their tribal traditions live more in the mountain regions.
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| The Dani by Evi Arbay (500px) |
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| Dani warrior by Mikael Thorvaldsson (500px.com) |
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