I highly recommend this set of Papua New Guinea images, by the Australian photographer Ben Bohane. The one posted above (larger version here) is a personal favorite for the way it juxtaposes the firearm with the quote from Psalms. I read that quote as so sinister in this context, but alternate translations give quite the opposite effect. Wish I could know whether the raskol who made that sign deliberately chose a translation that would fit with his crew’s nihilistic world view. Or if whatever Bible he stumbled across just happened to feature a version of the quote that was cosmically appropriate to his desperate circumstances.
More chilling photographs of raskols here and here.
Jordan // Apr 19, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Always interesting to see how words can be used in different ways. ‘Rascal’ usually has playful connotations in America and Britain, but clearly suggests something far more serious in PNG.