This portrait series developed over many years, and through a sustained process of accompanying and photographing the Indigenous Mens Programs facilitated by Larrakia Man, Robert E. Lewis. The series revolves around program participants, and specifically those connected to the community colloquially known and referred to as 'Knuckey’s’ or 'Knuckey’s Lagoon.’ Situated along the Stuart Highway, nine miles East of Darwin’s CBD, this community also has the Aboriginal name, Milgarri (a word from Daly River, meaning ‘water lily’). In tracing the development of the connections and friendships that formed between the photographer and participants, this series aims to show Darwin’s ‘visiting’ (non-Larrakia) population in a new light: one demonstrating the complexities of its’ enduring association with the city’s so-called ‘‘itinerant’ problem’ (Spencer, 2005).


* Spencer, S. (2005). Contested Homelands: Darwin’s ”Itinerant Problem.” Pacific Journalism Review, 11(1), 174-197.
** Permission to publish the photographs of Phillip Jangala and Joseph Garadji-Thompson has been provided by The Garadji Family.