Jutta Malnic, a Sydney photographer, was travelling in the Kimberley to photograph rock art in 1980 when she met David Mowaljarlai. She began a six-week project with him in 1986 that grew into six years. Jutta wrote Yorro Yorro as a non-Indigenous collaborator in conjunction with David, combining the journal of her travels in the remote northern Kimberley with his cultural knowledge of the rock art in the area and the songs and stories which inspired them.