The story behind the image – four little TiwiThis is the second post in the series “the story behind the image”. All the images in the series are featured in the Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue of Heide’s work, which you can see on my website.From the catalogue16.| |Four Little Tiwis, Bathurst Island,| 1988/1990.| Vintage silver […]
The story behind the image – Gerardine In our last blog we featured the Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue of Heide’s work. We talked about the work involved in preparing images for the catalogue of such a prestigious gallery, and we promised a future series of posts talking about “the story behind the image”. So here’s the […]
Josef Lebovic Gallery – Heide Smith Photographer About the Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue. This week the Josef Lebovic Gallery published a catalogue of photographs (Collectors List No 188 ), taken over a sixty year period by Heide Smith. The catalogue contains 48 vintage photographs, a vintage folio, and 3 Limited Edition folios. The images will be exhibited […]
My tiwi sister Gerardine TungatalumI want to honour the memory of my Tiwi sister Gerardine Tungatalum, on this International Women’s Day. Gerardine, a proud traditional Tiwi Elder, was loved and respected by all who knew her, and was my friend and mentor on my early visits to the Tiwi Islands. There are more portraits of […]
Portrait of Hon Dr Barry Jones – “The Courage Party” Two things happened on Saturday. I read Dr Barry Jones article “The Courage Party” in The Saturday Paper, and Heide gave me another portrait to add to the Noted Australians Collection on her website- and the portrait was of Barry Jones! If you are too […]
Sister Anne Gardiner- Senior Australian of the Year 2017April the 12th 2016 was the last time I set foot on Bathurst Island NT. The short flight from Darwin is always a delight for the eyes for the scenery below and when we land it is like coming home. July the 30th 1987 was the very […]
A tribute to Klaus Moje Klaus Moje was a friend with a big heart. We miss him already! Our heart goes out to Brigitte his partner and wife. These images where taken at their home in Wapengo, on the beach nearby, and at the Canberra Glass works in Kingston, Canberra.
Richard Neville 1941-2016 Australian writer, social commentator, editor of Oz in the 1960s-70s, an irreverent, radical counter culture magazine. I took these shots at the National Press Club Canberra, where I was the “photographer in residence”, on 15 March 1994. I remember that he had a wicked sense of humour and that he was a […]
friends I have recently added a few more portraits to my album, “friends”
Indigenous Australians – Tiwi Museum continuing the story of my latest trip to the Tiwi Isles from 11-18 April. At the Museum I meet Fiona and Magdalene Kerinaiua and the younger Joanita Tipiloura again. Fiona is busy on the computer and Maggie is translating old Tiwi stories to English. Magdalene actually featured in my 1990 […]