Challenging the Pacific ‘blind spots’ through images

David Robie; Del Abcede

doi:10.24135/pjr.v30i1and2.1360

David Robie Asia Pacific Media Network, Tāmaki Makaurau http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2176-8185
Del Abcede Asia Pacific Media Network, Tāmaki Makaurau

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v30i1and2.1360

Keywords: activism, blind spots, decolonisation, documentary, Kanaky, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, photoessays, photojournalism, Tonga, War on Gaza

Abstract

Photoessay: A unique feature of Pacific Journalism Review, compared with many other journalism and media research journals, has been a particular focus on photography and documentary. Contributors have been eclectic and varied, ranging from activist photojournalist John Miller (Ngāpuhi), who charted the new wave of Māori assertiveness from the first Nga Tamatoa protest at Waitangi in 1971 and who offered a research portfolio on the Ngatihine Land/Forestry legal dispute in Northland Aotearoa, to Ben Bohane’s ‘Melanesian mythical places with unreported conflicts’, to Kasun Ubayasiri’s ‘Manus to Meanjin’ study of refugee migration, to Filipino Fernando G. Sepe’s stunning but shocking portrayal of President Rodrigo Duterte’s extrajudicial ‘war on drugs’ (in reality a ‘war on poverty’), through to Todd M. Henry’s Tongan ‘Gangsters in Paradise’ and the realm of kava in New Zealand. At least a dozen portfolios have been published by the journal and this article examines and reflects on some of the highlights. The photoessay is completed with a portfolio of protest photographs from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand during eight months of Israel’s War on Gaza.

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Author Biography

David Robie, Asia Pacific Media Network, Tāmaki Makaurau

Professor David Robie
Associate Editor (Production), Pacific Journalism Review
Editor, Asia Pacific Report
https://www.facebook.com/PacificJournalismReview

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