Life among the clouds
It’s believed that Asian settlers first arrived in what is now
the Independent State of Papua New Guinea more than 50,000 years ago.
The territory has since seen numerous struggles for ownership,
including claims from Germany, Holland and the UK, as well as a period
under Australian rule, before independence was finally declared in
1975. But despite its international occupation, large areas of the
country’s cloud-cloaked interior remained unexplored until very
recently, primarily due to its rugged, mountainous terrain.
As recently as 40 years ago, the Kameans, a people from the highlands of the Gulf Province, were living as a loose collection of isolated tribes, and first contact was being made right up until the late 1980s. Traditionally feared as headhunters and cannibals, the Kamean people’s way of life has begun to shift since the introduction of Catholicism during the mid-1960s. Australian photojournalist Dave Tacon recently travelled to Papua New Guinea in order to document the changing culture of one of the world’s most isolated peoples.
As recently as 40 years ago, the Kameans, a people from the highlands of the Gulf Province, were living as a loose collection of isolated tribes, and first contact was being made right up until the late 1980s. Traditionally feared as headhunters and cannibals, the Kamean people’s way of life has begun to shift since the introduction of Catholicism during the mid-1960s. Australian photojournalist Dave Tacon recently travelled to Papua New Guinea in order to document the changing culture of one of the world’s most isolated peoples.
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