Indigenous Australians Tiwi – coming home It’s April 11 at last, and I am off to Bathurst Island north of Darwin. Love these small planes. You can see so much. Can’t wait to be back to my other home, the Tiwi Isles. Though only for a week, I hope to see old friends again. My […]
Portrait of Judith Wright McKinney (1915-2000)Portrait of Judith Wright McKinney (1915-2000) © copyright Heide Smith. IntroductionSome years ago my husband Brian and I collaborated on a series of articles for the Canberra Times; he wrote the article and I provided the photograph. The articles were about both the photo session, and the person being photographed. This portrait […]
Portrait of Hon Dr Ken Crispin QC Dr Ken Crispin was a barrister and Queens Counsel specializing in criminal law, ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, a Judge of the ACT Supreme Court, President of the ACT Court of Appeal, chair of the ACT Law Reform Commission, and author of a number of books, including “Quest […]
Portrait of Sir Mark Oliphant I photographed Sir Mark Oliphant in 1994 at his home in Canberra for a collection I was working on called “The Canberrans – a Vintage Selection”. The exhibition in support of The Council for the Ageing, was held in the ACT Legislative Assembly Building and was launched by the Chief […]
Portrait of Jack Thompson Jack Thompson AM is a Living Legend of Australian Cinema. He had leading roles in many films but the ones I remember particularly well are “Breaker Morant” and “The Man from Snowy River”. Another claim to fame was his appearance in Cleo magazine as the first nude male centrefold in […]
Portrait of Rodney Hall AM Rodney Hall is a poet, acclaimed author of 11 books, winner of two Miles Franklin Awards, and a previous chair of the Australia Council for the Arts. This portrait of Rodney Hall was taken in 1982 at his home near Bermagui on the south coast of NSW. It is part […]
Portrait of the Dalai Lama 1992 I was fortunate enough to photograph His Holiness The Dalai Lama on several of his appearances as a guest speaker at the National Press Club Canberra. This shot, which is my favourite, was taken in 1992, and is one of only 17 images selected for my Limited Edition of 7 […]
In addition to the Fotokino exhibition which I mentioned in Part Two of my tale, my work was also represented in a number of international exhibitions in Europe and Asia. After my apprenticeship, I had joined the editorial staff of a local daily newspaper as a photo-journalist in 1959. When my pictures appeared in the […]
Noted Australian Ian Parmenter Another addition to my collection of Noted Australians is Australian Celebrity Chef Ian Parmenter AOM. Among his many talents, Ian hosted a weekly show Consuming Passions for 10 years on ABC TV. He has written 14 books, is a winemaker, and with David Evans runs Consuming Passions a worldwide event management […]
A Photographers Tale – part two. In 1963, the year I left Germany with husband Brian, Fotokina exhibited the work of 14 young photographers, which included me.” The shot below is from a newspaper report of my contribution to the Fotokina exhibition; “Prize Winner at Fotokina …….”
A display of Heide smiths photographs in an Exhibition of 14 young German Photographers at Fotokina in 1963
Exhibition of 14 young German Photographers at Fotokina in 1963 – Heide Smith’s panel
This is a translation of a newspaper report “Prize bearer at Fotokina 1963