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Poster celebrates International Women’s Day 2012
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The IWD poster – produced by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to help celebrate the outstanding contributions of Indigenous women each year on International Women’s Day (March 8). (Photo: John Paul Janke) |
5 March 2012
A 60 year old image of two Aboriginal girls pictured around the Central Australian community of Areyonga is the stunning feature of an International Women’s Day poster that is set to become an annual tradition.
The poster – produced by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) – is aimed at assisting schools, businesses and organisations in celebrating the outstanding contributions of Indigenous women each year on International Women’s Day (March 8).
The inaugural poster features a photo taken in 1951 by Ronald Rose - an accomplished author and researcher in the fields of psychokinesis and extrasensory perception who worked with among the Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte, Bundjalung and Githabul peoples.
Throughout his research activities between 1950 and 1966, Rose took photographs of the landscapes, mission scenes and portraits of individuals.
The image is part of the Ronald Rose Collection and drawn from the Institute’s Audiovisual Archive – the world's most comprehensive collection of print, moving image, sound recordings and photograph materials relating to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories.
In late 2007, the AIATSIS Audiovisual Archive completed the digitisation of Ronald Rose’s vast collection of approximately one thousand original images, donated by his son, Chris Rose.
AIATSIS holds over 700,000 images in its Audiovisual Archive.
For free copies of the poster please contact AIATSIS on 02 6246 1111 or email: communications@aiatsis.gov.au
Click here to download a PDF of the Poster. (size 657k)
