Papua New Guinea, August 2011

Busy traffic, busy development in the remote Highlands

Traditional versus modern fishing

PNG's national parliament, Waigani

Huli wigman at Tari airport

Foreign workers with the gas project

Construction of a new airstrip in Hela region

A Southern Highlands school burnt out in tribal fighting

Trucks on the Highlands Highway

The Highlands Highway - a truck graveyard

Johnny interviews an employee of the liquefied natural gas project

Misty mountains of Hela

Johnny interviews a Tari local

Oil search base at Nogoli

Exxon Mobil training facility in Hides

Village hut in project's wellhead area in Hides

Sleeping quarters for villagers in project's wellhead area in Hides

Principal landowners in Hides

Village hut in Hides

Every second young Highlands man has a machete in hand

Highlands Highway onlookers

Villagers stand aloft their fortress on the Highlands Highway

PNG's young have few job prospects

Papua New Guineans are often outsiders to economic development on their land

Foreign workers arrive at Tari

Chopper landing, Tari airport

Head of the gas project, Peter Graham of Exxon subsidiary Esso Highlands

Johnny negotiates with security outside Exxon HQ in Port Moresby

Security guard at Vision City, a new mega shopping mall in the capital built by Malaysian logging giant Rimbunan Hijau

PNG's national parliament, Waigani

Mural on PNG's national parliament, Waigani

Mural on PNG's national parliament, Waigani

Land clearing in Madang

Traditional livelihoods in Madang's coastal area

Rai Coast landowner

Rai Coast landowner

Madang villager at site for proposed marine industrial zone

Logging, Madang

Market produce, Madang

Alexischafen Lagoon, Madang

Radio interview, Madang coastline

Kananam villagers

Tin shack, Kananam

PNG's vibrant flora

Refuge from the sun in Madang

Shaman leads a rally in Madang