The Australia Post, Our Community Photo Bank Awards

The Community Photo Bank is open to any community group that needs to illustrate some aspect of the life of the community. You can plug these photos freely into your own projects, making it simpler to show how we work together and care for each other.

This gallery provides community groups with a growing library of photos that they can use in developing marketing materials. All photos are available free for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license.


Aboriginal people should be aware that this gallery may contain the names and pictures of deceased Aboriginal people and/or images of their art work.

Photographic Solidarity With The People of Haiti

 Mwen Pa Fou

Over a year ago, the association of L'Arche communities in Quebec (AAQ - Association des Arches du Québec) and L'Arche Canada-Communications began to work together to create a photo exhibit that would illustrate life in L'Arche in Haiti and in Quebec through the artistic eye of photographer Jonathan Boulet-Groulx.

Jonathan Boulet-Groulx is a young reporter-photographer who has been involved with L'Arche as a volunteer and an assistant for more than five years. He has been living in Chantal, Haiti, since May 2009. When he isn't busy with L'Arche Chantal's work-expansion project, he might be nestled in his hammock, or he might be taking photographs that illustrate the living conditions of people with intellectual disabilities in this, his adopted country. He intends to continue this work of photo-documentation indefinitely, in order to paint a portrait of intellectual disabilities in the world ...

2009 Photography Competition highlighting Poverty in Australia

• Photography Competition highlighting Poverty in Australia

I submitted a few entries in this event and hope it gets enough support to be presented again next year. Congratulations to Welfare Rights for this initiative.At the exhibition at Brisbane City Hall I was able to meet some of the other photographers and celebrate our work for justice making through art.
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