“When I took this photo, I didn't realize the extent of the damage,” said Casey at the center of the Australia Photo Festival

Logic would have dictated that I photograph the fire in front of me, but I looked back and saw them startled and trembling, and I wanted to capture their vulnerability.” Matthew Abbott explains.

The government does not seem to have taken any concrete action following this tragedy. Can he start again? However, the first inhabitants of this territory set a precedent. The photographer spoke with the indigenous people to highlight their technique to stop the spread of fire. We see them lighting their own bushfires to create a counterfire. “For them, fire is a tool. They burn the land at certain times, when there is no wind,​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​holds, the white man listens to them and manages the forest without leaving it in its natural state.

Here is an adivasi : Bobbi Lockyer is part of a community of “salt water” people near a small town. Port Hedland, Near the sea in northwest Australia. She is noted for her maternity photos. Also, his four sons and his mother pose for him.

For us, the role of mother is essential and it is thanks to her and her descendants that we are connected to the land of our forefathers.

Bobby Lockyer

Tribal photographer

“She respects the mother earth and raises the children,” she says. In each of Bobby Lockyer's portraits, a sense of tenderness emerges. Women and children are subdued through the lens in their privacy, in traditional dress, in a natural setting, with particular emphasis on color.

For Bobbi Lockyer, these photographs serve as a tool for social justice, tribal rights, and women's rights. Every time they give birth, tribal women are sent to hospitals far from their homes, she says. I defend the “Birth in the Country” movement so that we can birth our children in our homes, in the land of our ancestors, according to our traditions. Secret rites of which she reveals nothing. For this artist, it's really a question of confronting the financial concerns that threaten the territories of Australia's First Peoples. : “I was born and raised in a mining town where white people destroy the environment in the name of profit.”

Frenchwoman Vivienne Dulles spent two years in Australia, far from the coast where most people live. She penetrated two-thirds of the country's core, bush and suburbs. She wanted to go as far as possible in these great places, in these desolate regions, out of any city, on dusty roads.

A surprising journey through chance leads her to strange encounters. He would share a farmer's life at the head of herds of 2 to 3,000 animals, watching their work and sleeping with them under the stars.

Animals reach farms the size of our French fields by helicopter and quads.

Vivian Dolls

Photographer

On top of all that, she also follows the unlikely hosts of a boxing tent traveling in a trailer. The group travels from place to place to present the fight scene to the public. “Everybody competes to defend their honor in the ring, and there's pride in fighting for your mark.” Viviane Dalles underlines.

On her way, she also meets a postman from the desert. Again, this works The desert is vast. She delivers mail by air, with an uncertain schedule depending on the weather. The unusual rules brought to light by Vivian Dolls.

Casilli Photo Festival also opens its doors to other perspectives in other countries. Always willing to put the image at the service of protecting the environment and people.

La Casilla Film Festival, June 21 to November 3, 2024 is free. Decryption of photos can also be found on the site thanks Videos can be accessed through QR codes, Produced by France3 Bretagne and France Bleu Armorique