David Maurice Smith
Photographer
Oculi
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
A Canadian documentary photographer currently based in Sydney, Australia and member of the Oculi Collective. My work focuses on telling stories through still imagery and multimedia. Clients: Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, GEO Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Le Monde, Outside Magazine, CNN, The Discovery Channel, Monocle, The Sydney Morning Herald, AFR and The Australian.
2016 - Nikon-Walkley Award for Feature Photographic Essay, 2016 - Finalist - Australian Freelancer of the Year, 2016 - Finalist - Amnesty International Media Awards
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Asylum Seekers in Indonesia
David Maurice Smith
From a series commissioned by The Guardian documenting the thousands of asylum seekers trapped in Indonesia by Australia's hardline stance towards refugees.
The Australia governments recent hard line policies towards asylum seekers entering Australian waters have largely ‘stopped the boats’, but the persecution, torture and violence that lead to large-scale human displacement go on. So what has become of those whose dangerous circumstances forced them to flee their homelands? Just south of Jakarta, a small town has become a bustling hub for thousands of people seeking a better life. From across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, men, women and children find themselves trapped in Cisarua, from where they had hoped to make a final journey – to Australia.