Sistagirl portrait wins top prize
Author:
Staff Writers
Posted:
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
http://www.starobserver.com.au/entertainment/2009/12/15/sistagirl-portrait-wins-top-prize/19659Melbourne photographer Bindi Cole last month won the $25,000 Deadly Art Award, one of the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, for her portrait of a sistagirl from the Tiwi Islands, 80km north of Darwin.
"I'd pegged somebody else to win, so I was very shocked," Cole told Sydney Star Observer. "But I must say, it was a team effort between me and the sistagirls. They're really the stars, more than me."
The photo is one of a series of shots Cole captured after venturing to the Tiwi Islands to spend time with the sistagirl (an Indigenous term loosely meaning transgender) population there. In an island community of 2500, there are some 50 sistagirls living relatively harmoniously.
