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Jerrems included five photographs of Bobbi Sykes in A book about Australian women, four of which show her during the 1972 Black Moratorium, deftly commanding the attention of the gathered crowd as she speaks and listens. During the Black Moratorium, 500 First Nations people led a 6000-strong demonstration in Sydney, advocating for Land Rights. The energy of these photographs is momentous and impassioned. They constitute a relatively rare instance of Jerrems photographing people at a major public event, their attention directed elsewhere, rather than in a specific portrait session.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Mrs Joy Jerrems 1981.
© The Estate of Carol Jerrems
from Saturday 30 November 2024
Carol Jerrems: Portraits is a major exhibition of one of Australia’s most influential photographers. Jerrems’ intimate portraits of friends, lovers and artistic peers transcend the purely personal and have come to shape Australian visual culture.
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