Matthew Abbott

PERSONAL PROJECTS/On Country in Arnhem Land 2008 - Ongoing PHOTOJOURNALISM/Cattle Raiding in South Sudan 2014 PHOTOJOURNALISM/Rohingya Refugees 2012 Purchasing Photographs PHOTOJOURNALISM/South Sudan In Turmoil 2014 PHOTOJOURNALISM/Istanbul 2008 About - Contact Hussain's Journey/Hussain's Journey FULL Achievements PERSONAL PROJECTS/The Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards PHOTOJOURNALISM/Tear Sheets PHOTOJOURNALISM/Video Doco: Get Free or Die Trying 2013 PERSONAL PROJECTS/When They Sing of Australia They Never Mention the Flies PHOTOJOURNALISM/Camp Dead End - Manus Island 2016 PHOTOJOURNALISM/The Last Outback Truckies PHOTOJOURNALISM/Jillaroos PHOTOJOURNALISM/"We are not a gang" Aus-South Sudanese Youth EDITORIAL PORTRAITS PHOTOJOURNALISM/Black Summer PHOTOJOURNALISM/Grand City PHOTOJOURNALISM/Football’s Longest Drive PHOTOJOURNALISM/Bachelor and Spinsters PHOTOJOURNALISM/Samoa Measles Epidemic PHOTOJOURNALISM/Uluru Climbing Ban

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Members of the Lajamanu team wait inside the mini bus as team mates organise fuel and food supplies. The bus is packed full of clothes and blankets, the players take any seat they can, with some sitting on bags and blankets that line the aisle. The doors are jammed shut and the team begins the journey 583kms along dirt roads from Lajamanu to the Yuendumu Football Carnival. Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia, Thursday 1st August 2019. Matthew Abbott for The New York Times.

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