I am in Papua New Guinea

2014,/ Photograph,/ Size variable

I am in Papua New Guinea
I am in Papua New Guinea
I am in Papua New Guinea
I am in Papua New Guinea

Yashima traveled to Papua New Guinea: the land home to over 800 tribes and to this day the traditional practice of witch-hunts remains in the mountains. With no guidebooks to prepare her for the life with the danger of rape and violent robery, she met a Japanese person by chance who took her in. Through this series of photographs, Yashima contemplates the lives of locals and their vitality, which was far from her secured life back in Japan.