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Title: Home
Jessica Cooper, Undergraduate Student
Winner of the UniSA Senior Leadership Group Prize
Community is about doing something together that makes belonging matter. This photo was taken where i grew up in a small country town surrounded by the ocean. I chose this sunset photo as i took it one night as our community festival was coming to an end. The sunsets at home are something we all get to enjoy while eating and drinking together. Home is not just about a place to live but about the people you feel most alive with. It’s about the community, belonging, and building relationships together as we are all searching for a home.
Title: Music weaves together communities
Phoenix J Whitrod, Undergraduate Student
Community can be a place, or a people. But in the music world, community is more than that. Community is a sense. Music brings people together and binds them, weaving the mutual love of what they’re hearing around them, and for the duration of even just one song, a new community is formed. This guitar belonged to my dad, who sadly passed away a couple of years ago. His love of music was shared with me the moment I was born. My dad was a rock star, responsible for the creation of countless communities, sharing the love of the music he helped to make.
Title: Beehive Corner
Dylan Brinton-Pickering, Undergraduate Student
Located on the intersection of Rundle Street and King William Street, Beehive Corner is an iconic local landmark. Built in 1895, the building stands as proud as the day it was built, and has long been a community hub for the people of Adelaide.
Title: Entranced in Kenilworth
Gabriele Then, Undergraduate Student
This is a photo of a community mural on the side of Kenilworth Doughnut Shop, in Kenilworth on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Queensland. I took this shot of a child completely entranced by it on a rainy day in Kenilworth. I enjoy the triangular symmetry and lines of the photo’s composition, as well as the fact that the mural adorns the wall between the doughnut shop and bakery side. People are able to walk up the back with their carbohydrate laden goods and enjoy more than just a wall, in what would otherwise be just an alley or walkway. It’s a whole community experience there.
Title of picture: Where the outback meets the sea
Tiana Pope, Undergraduate Student
Winner of the Executive Group Choice Prize
This photograph captures the heart of my little local town, the place where members from the community most gather to enjoy time by the beautiful beach that lines the town. This image also captures Hummock Hill and the Steelworks, two of Whyalla’s most iconic attractions that the residents hold dearly with extreme pride. As seen from a Birds Eye view, the red dust covered town connects beautifully with the ocean view, capturing the famous saying ‘where the outback meets the sea’. This image brings me a particular sense of both proudness and belonging in a community that shares so much love and compassion to those who call it home and those who are simply passing by.
Title: An ecosystem of lives
John Walker, Professional Staff Member
A cursory glance up at one of Adelaide’s inner-city housing structures initially filled me with a sense of claustrophobia because of just how close the windows were to one another. I thought about shared walls and pungent cooking smells, loud music and TVs, and awkward hallway greetings. But those initial feelings and thoughts were soon supplanted by the recognition that there must be a rich ecosystem of people and lives that dwell behind those brick walls. I thoughts turned instead to the collective sounds of lives being lived, the squeal of young children playing, and connections nurtured by a shared sense of place.
Title: I wish to be free, and fly as the birds
Briannon Hoskin, Undergraduate Student
COVID 19 reshaped our world, forcing us to be prisoners in our own home and community. If you were a bird, how high would you fly? Would you fly above the trees, feeling the wind in your wings. Would you fly below the clouds, with drops of rain echoing off your face? Or would you fly above the clouds? It is your imagination, not the size of your wings that determine how high you fly. COVID may have trimmed our wings, but we can still sore above the clouds, together.
Title: Cricket: Meri Jaan
Reene Dahima, Undergraduate Student
“India India”, they scream
Does it unite us or break the teams?
With years of heritage it’s not just a game anymore
For us it’s a war ablaze with tradition and remorse
The lonely child runs through the corridor, screeching- “Match is beginning”
The group of uncles sit by side, muttering amongst them as players arrive
We fight, cry and bleed together
Still at the end we come to celebrate
Because cricket is not just a sport, but a sense of community that flows through our veins
It’s not- “they”, “them”, “him”, “her” in the end; it’s us walking side by side on the pitch next season again
Title: Curry night of Cameleer descendants
Muzafar Ali, Undergraduate Student
‘Curry Night’ is a special community event for the descendants of Afghan cameleers. Each year, the descendants of Afghan cameleers gather in Marree, SA to celebrate their ancestors’ life and achievement in Australia. The cameleers and their camels were first imported from Sub-continent India during 1860s. They played a key role to explore inner Australian deserts, and provided logistical and transportation services to build telegraph, railway lines. Many of the cameleers married to Aboriginal and European women and their children assimilated in modern Australian society. The cameleers and their descendants faced racial discrimination and profiling during colonial era, and White Australia policy. Many of the descendants are ‘stolen-generation’ and still suffering from generational trauma. Regardless to their background, and geographical locations, ‘Curry Night’ brings them back to the place where cameleers thrived as a community in Marree. In an event with a clear message, ‘everyone is welcome’; the descendants share stories of their grandfathers and pledge to return the next year.
Title: Autumn leaves
Debbie Xenophou, Undergraduate Student
Community is important. When students, families and teachers feel connected, there is a deeper sense of belonging and motivation to teach and learn. My children belong to a wonderful school community. The school inspires our children to learn by being courageous, curious, and creative while being part of a caring community. A child’s sense of belonging at school is related to how well they do academically and emotionally. When a child feels that they belong at school they tend to be happier and more confident. During school pick up on a beautiful Autumn Day, a group of mothers stood across from the school chatting. The children grew bored waiting, so they started throwing leaves at one another. They had a lot of fun.
Title: Together
Sharine Guerra Madoo, Undergraduate Student
Featured on UniSA’s UniLED and Twitter
These are the hands of my friends. They come from different backgrounds and have different talents. When these hands get together they make almost anything possible.
Title: Mother Marae
Hannah Dineen, Professional Staff Member
The Marae in Māori culture are the pinnacle of their community. These grounds are considered the sacred meeting place for the Iwi (tribe) or Hapū (sub-tribe) to host gatherings, prayers, celebrations, song and dance, educational teachings, or Tangihangas (funerals).
A Marae gives the Iwi a sense of belonging and tribal identity. The carvings within the Wharenui (meeting house) are unique and individually carved to represent the notable figures and chiefs of each Whānau (family), and depict the ancestral stories passed down through the generations. This particular carving portrays the pregnant second wife of one of the first Chiefs of the Kaikohe region. She is looking upon her sons, who are carved into the wall in front of her, while the Chief’s first wife is behind her looking towards the future of their Whānau.
The walls and roof pillars are adorned with markings and symbols, leading your eyes to the Waka (canoe) that holds the Wharenui roof together, symbolising the ancestral spirits floating to Ranginui (The Great Sky) by Waka. The blank spaces are reserved for the future Rangatira (figure head) as they become immortalised in the wood by their kin and join the stories passed through the generations.
The New Zealand Marae are now protected, with very few left standing in Paihia and Waitangi (Bay of Islands) after colonisation attempted to destroy and erase the Māori culture and religious teachings. Being invited to the Marae through Pōwhiri (welcome ceremony) gave us a taste of the strong community and culture of the traditional land owners of Aotearoa, and why Indigenous traditions and history are so important to preserve.
Title: Muslim Community
Ala Rabieizadeh, Undergraduate Student
The image shows a religious event related to the Muslim community that celebrated 40 days after the day killing of Hussain, grandson of prophet Muhammad. The event celebrated in Karbala (Iraq) and Muslims follow it around the world. Hussain and his71 companions in war of Karbala killed by son of Ziyad’s army. 40 days after killing of Hussain, his family returned to Medina and the first person visit the grave of Hussain. On this day, the beheaded Hossein was joined to his body in Karbala.The image shows son of Ziyad’s army and their tent in war of Karbala. God's blessings be upon Hussain and her faithful companions and may his path be filled with followers forever.
Title: Collaboration
Sharine Guerra Madoo, Undergraduate Student
This image is David Hockney inspired. It reflects the many races, talents, and people that live in our communities. They bring colour, innovation, vibrance for life, but most all they help to make as stronger as whole.
Title: Supper in Mexico
Sharine Guerra Madoo, Undergraduate Student
Winner of the Members’ Choice Prize
There are communities that keep their traditions and way of life close to heart. This image is reminder that these communities exist amidst our modern day comforts.