Lagoon Home
A house sits perched above the still waters of Llanga Llanga, surrounded by ponds and gardens.
Mother and Child
A mother holds her child outside a church under construction. Villagers are collectively responsible for building homes.
Village Race
Children run in pursuit of one another along the village pathways surfaced with crushed coral.
Catching Up
Children trying to outrun one another near Llanga Llanga Lagoon.
Arm in Arm
Children pose for a photo with arms locked in one another. Their village lies between Llanga LLanga lagoon and a dense tropical forest.
Avro eats a Coconut
Children in the Solomon Islands get much of their daily nutrition from fruit growing in and around their villages, as well as fish caught in the nearby lagoon.
Slurp!
The delicious coconut milk is just about reachable with the head tilted right back.
Ave Maria
Glazed ceramic eyes watch over her vulnerable little village. Llanga Llanga has seen threats from powerful tribes, political unrest and tropical cyclones over the years.
Home Building
Workers thatch the roof of a house using palm fronds. The frame is made from sandalwood.
Group Photo
Children line up along a farm road, chewing papaya fruit and smiling for a photograph together.
Strangler Ficus
A strangler fig reaches dizzying heights, its branches covered with epiphytes of all kinds.
Rough Pasture
The ground is churned up by pigs and is extremely fertile. All kinds of tropical plants grow among the leaf litter.
Thatched Home
A house stands amidst the lush growth of a tropical forest and surrounding gardens and orchards.
Grandfather and Grandson
A man in a brightly colored Hawaiian shirt was proud to talk about his lagoon home’s ancestry. His godson wears a string of red and white shells.
Llanga Couple
A husband and wife have their portrait taken outside their lagoon home. She wears the traditional red, white and black shell beads around her neck.
Tropical Passageways
Fields are connected to one another by thin lines of pressed soil, running through the foreboding forests of the island interior.
Lagoon Stillness
The still water of the lagoon adds a magical quality to this picture taken in Llanga Llanga.
The Shallows
The lagoon separated a string of villages on one side from thick rainforest buttressed by sheer mountain sides on the other.
Bursting Out
Plants rise above the water’s surface, connecting a placid lagoon with the troubled skies above. Rain in Llanga Llanga was a constant presence.
Purple Evening
A collection of plants at the water’s edge sway in the gentle breeze that crept into the lagoon.
Wooden Passage
Flamed by the evening sun, the horizon is met by the edge of an old wooden walkway.
Frangipani
The leaves of this wonderfully scented plant fan outwards, catching the morning dew.
Bedroom on Stilts
A little dwelling sits well above the water. The night will soon be alive with the cacophony of frogs and insect-catching bats, and the flickering of fireflies.
Mangrove Elegance
A mangrove plants bows towards the water, its delicate leaves reflected on its surface.
Llanga Llanga Village
Cobbled pathways are lined by crushed shell and coral.
Terrace Haven
A small ladder leads up to a wooden balcony, from which all of the sights of Malaita Island’s rainforest life can be observed.
Tucked Away
A wooden house nestled between coconut palms sits at the edge of this beautiful lagoon.
Evening in Llanga
As dusk sets in and another day passes, that house on the lagoon basks in the glory of evening light.