Yukultji and Yalti with their family

Yukultji and Yalti are members of a group referred to as ‘the Pintupi Nine’, believed to be the last Indigenous Australians to come into contact with the ‘outside’ world following European settlement. The group was still pursuing a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle, consistent with that lived by their ancestors for tens of thousands of years, when they came to media attention in October 1984. This photograph was taken in Pintupi country on Lake Mackay, a salt lake 100 kilometres long in the middle of the desert on the Western Australia-Northern Territory border.