{"product_id":"unfinished-business-stories-about-disability-from-remote-regional-and-urban-australian-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-communities-by-belinda-mason","title":"‘Unfinished Business: Stories About Disability from Remote, Regional and Urban Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities’ by Belinda Mason","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eUnfinished Business\u003c\/em\u003e is a photographic oral-history project centred on thirty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disability across Australia.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach portrait is paired with the participant’s own account, and their disability is placed inside histories of colonisation, racism, institutionalisation, the Stolen Generations, environmental harm, inadequate services and the persistence to being heard on one’s own terms. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe book strips that installation back to a stark sequence of black-and-white portraits and first-person narratives. The photographs are extraordinary. The sitters speak directly about deafness, blindness, illness, acquired disability, institutional violence, family, Country, survival and advocacy. It is both an art object and a social document, with the photographs functioning as a threshold into testimony rather than as illustrations of it.\u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhotographer and human-rights documentarian Belinda Mason developed the project over several years, with participants determining how their stories would be represented. The original exhibition combined large-scale lenticular portraits, video, voice and text, and was first shown at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in 2013 before appearing at the World Health Organization and as part of Australia’s contribution to the 2014 UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition\/Condition: \u003cem\u003eUnfinished Business\u003c\/em\u003e, 2014. Photography by Belinda Mason; edited by Sarah Shrubb; produced by Victoria Jefferys. Hardcover, 71 pp., extensively illustrated in black and white. ISBN 9780992320676. Light surface and shelf wear to boards; internally clean and firmly bound. Very good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46222654275667,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_77.png?v=1789104103","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/unfinished-business-stories-about-disability-from-remote-regional-and-urban-australian-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-communities-by-belinda-mason","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}