Faces And Hands

People are art the world over!

A young Koiari girl dressed for a cultural dance at Kokoda in the Owen Stanley Ranges to celebrate National Fuzzy Wuzzy Day, November 3, 2011.

Believed to be aged over 105, Ovuru Ndiki of Naduri village in the Owen Stanley Ranges is one of the last surviving Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, Papua New Guineans who carried wounded Australian soldiers to safety down the Kokoda Track in 1942 during the dark days of World War II.

A flautist’s fingers play a haunting traditional tune at Dullah on the Kei Islands, off the coast of West Papua, in the far eastern corner of Indonesia.

Image Credits

All Images Are © Vincent Ross

Vincent Ross Artist Bio

Vincent Ross has been a journalist for more than 30 years, working in newspapers and public relations, and over the past ten years as a freelance travel writer and photojournalist. He is 53, married to Lee-Anne, has three sons aged 23, 20 and 17 and lives in Adelaide, South Australia – known commonly as the driest state on the driest continent, Australia. Which isn’t quite true, because Antarctica is, in fact, the driest continent on Earth, having far less rainfall than any other land mass. People and places visited, written about and photographed over the past 30 years cover countries including Turkey, Thailand, Laos, Borneo, Bali, Sri Lanka, Israel, Greece, Britain, Scotland, France, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Singapore, Malaysia, North Korea, South Korea, Tahiti, Fiji, Samoa, India, New Caledonia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Macau, the Philippines, Argentina, Australia, the Falkland Islands and Antarctica. Vincent is a sub editor on a daily metropolitan newspaper, Regional Editor Asia Pacific for Unusual and Unique Hotels of the World and Managing Editor of the online humanitarian photographic gallery travelart.org. He is also past President of the Australian Society of Travel Writers and in 2004, won the Best Travel Feature Award, presented by the Korea National Tourism Organisation, for his feature article on a stay in a South Korean Buddhist temple.

Blog / Website: http://www.travelart.org