Bride and groom, Achol and Marial dancing at the reception during their wedding ceremony, Sydney, 2013 / Conor Ashleigh
- Bib ID:
- 7459983
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Ashleigh, Conor, 1987-, photographer
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digital collection item.
- Description:
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- 2013
- 1 online resource (1 photograph) : TIFF file, colour
- Series:
- Australia's South Sudanese refugee community, 2010-2015.
- Summary:
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"Bride and groom, Achol and Marial share a first dance at the reception for their wedding in Fairfield, a suburb in Western Sydney. Amongst the Dinka and Nuer communities in Australia it is still very common for a bride price to be paid by the groom and his family to the wives family. A separate wedding the photographer documented in early 2015 $65,000 was agreed upon by the families to be paid as the bride price."--Information supplied by photographer.
- Notes:
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- Title from acquisitions documentation.
- Part of the collection: Australia's South Sudanese refugee community, 2010-2015.
- Subject:
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- Sudanese Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Photographs
- Sudanese -- Marriage customs and rites -- Photographs
- Bride price -- Sudan -- Photographs
- Weddings -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Photographs
- Brides -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Photographs
- Bridegrooms -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Photographs
- Dinka (African people) -- Photographs
- Refugees -- Sudan -- Photographs
- Occupation:
- Refugees
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- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2013
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