Informal portrait of Mel Langdon, Regional Surveillance Unit North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE), ...

Accession Number P11437.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Albert, Tony
Place made Australia: Northern Territory
Date made May 2012
Conflict Period 2010-2019
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Source credit to Acquired through Australian War Memorial official commission 2012
Description

Informal portrait of Mel Langdon, Regional Surveillance Unit North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE), sitting on a camp bed. One of a series of photographs taken by Tony Albert, the Australian War Memorial's first official artist to NORFORCE. In May 2012, Albert photographed members of NORFORCE's 2012 recruit intake as they undertook training. Indigenous soldiers make up fifty percent of NORFORCE personnel, and are recruited predominately from the area they patrol in order to draw on local knowledge.