Big Fence - a Portrait of Pitcairn Island


  • Photographer
    Rhiannon Adam
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2014
  • Technical Info
    Taken on a Hasselblad

All images were taken on Pitcairn Island, Britain's last overseas territory in the Pacific, a 2 by 1 mile lump of rock. Home to just 42 people, making it the world's least populous country, Pitcairn island is famous for being the home of descendants of the Mutiny on the Bounty and for having the highest proportion of convicted child sex offenders per capita of anywhere in the world. Pitcairn is now home to 5 convicted men, who served time in the island's small prison, and just one child, Cushana, aged 6. The only way on and off the island is by sea - 17 days from New Zealand by supply boat. The boat visits just once every 3 months, so I lived there for 96 nights. Very wary of outsiders, due to the dark past, it took one month before I was allowed to take a portrait.

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