Dinah Norman, Yanyuwa Camp2015
This work comes from the series My country, no home, and portrays Yanyuwa woman Dinah Norman leaning on a wire fence in front of her house. The series was made in conjunction with interviews with several of the sitters, who discussed the housing situation in Borroloola. As an area that has been hit by cyclones since the 1980s, temporary housing in the Borroloola area has been patched and repaired while communities wait on government decisions about access to resources.
Charlie started photographing the damaged houses in her community to support claims for maintenance to be undertaken by state and federal governments. However, her project quickly changed to one that sought to document and celebrate her community. As Charlie explains it, ‘The project is not to shame people, but to show the people how we’re living in Borroloola’.
(2020)
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
