Where Chocolate Comes From
By Graham Crumb | June 20, 2009
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Nambanga (Banyan) Tree
By Graham Crumb | June 18, 2009
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Johnseth’s Mother
By Graham Crumb | June 18, 2009
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Bemused Girl
By Graham Crumb | June 18, 2009
“Yu nem blong yu huyia?” (”You, your name is who?“) Jenny can’t be more than 8 or 9 years old. Her face is a study in earnest concentration. She’s seen me walking down the road, and has stopped to wait for me.
I tell her my name as she adjusts her pace to mine, and she nods. Whether approvingly or not, I can’t tell. “Where are you from?”
“Canada.”
“Ah… Canada.” I’m not sure what this signifies to her, but her next question takes me by surprise. “So you don’t have a God? You worship Allah?”
I refrain from correcting the first statement and simply tell her I was raised Catholic.
“So your sabbath is on Saturday?”
“Sunday,” I gently correct her.
“But your women, they’re very small, aren’t they?” I stifle a chuckle.
“My mother is very short, but that’s not common for us.”
Noting her white shirt and blue skirt, I ask her why she’s not in school right now.
“I’m not going to school today,” she replies in a matter-of-fact tone. Apparently the explanation suffices for her. I ask her where she’s going. She replies with the name of a village and nods down the road.
We reach the junction with the road uphill to Isangel and I take my leave, respectfully thanking her for the conversation.
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Market Women
By Graham Crumb | June 13, 2009
Women from all over Tanna come to Lenakel to sell their goods on Market Day.
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Yo!
By Graham Crumb | June 13, 2009
Everyone has time to say hello in Lenakel.
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Oranges!
By Graham Crumb | June 13, 2009
These mandarines were on sale in bunches of 50 for a dollar. I love it when they’re in season.
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Stella
By Graham Crumb | June 12, 2009
Stella and her husband own a resort near Lenakel in Tanna. She’s from the Solomon Islands but hasn’t been back since the violence 6-odd years ago.
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Chief Ieru
By Graham Crumb | June 11, 2009
I met Chief Ieru one afternoon as he was walking home on the road out of Lenakel. We gave him a lift for a few kilometres.
In return for the ride and some small change, he agreed to pose for me.
Then he sang me a song. In a baritone voice smooth as an old oak cask, he improvised a bantering verse that, among other things, listed every community in Port Vila, from Freswota 1,2,3,4 and 5 to Mele, Mele Maat and the underwater post office at Hideaway Island.
It was one of the more impressive examples of comedic improvisation I’ve seen in years.
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Three Children
By Graham Crumb | June 11, 2009
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Smoke and Cloud
By Graham Crumb | June 4, 2009
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Timorese Youth
By Graham Crumb | June 1, 2009
There’s something about his eyes that’s really unnerving.
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Timorese Children
By Graham Crumb | June 1, 2009
I worked up a few black and whites from the shots I took last year in Timor Leste. You can see the rest of them here.
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The Backup Singers
By Graham Crumb | May 30, 2009
They harmonised perfectly.
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Imagicity - Now With Added Randomness
By Graham Crumb | May 25, 2009
I just added a new category called Random. It contains - how very smart of you to guess - a collection of 10 randomly selected photos from the 600 or so that are stored on gallery.imagicity.com. The list is updated every minute.
Endless fun for the easily amused.
These photos are offered without warranty. There is no implied suitability for any purpose. Some of them are even silly, or boring, or worse. Works for me, though. I just found one or two I didn’t know I had, including that one, over there to the right.
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