While fruit farmers Mr and Mrs Somerville lobbed their tennis ball on dusty courts in the Orange region of NSW, their young son Warren waited patiently and dug around in the nearby rocky ground. Warren later confessed, ‘I found lots of strange looking rocks which I carted home, to my mother’s utter disgust… and gradually […]
Although James Wooler (1872-1944) resided in Broken Hill for only a few years his photographs transformed how the world saw its people. His work for The Barrier Miner put the newspaper at the cutting edge of mass media, surpassing The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s ability to illustrate articles. His photographic legacy is a […]
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