photographer, was a thirty-two year old settler living on a small mixed farm with her husband, William, at tiny Newmerella, near Orbost in Gippsland, Victoria, when she bought her first camera, an Austral Box quarter-plate. Her family says she was entirely self-taught, like many women photographers who started out with nothing but the instructions on the packets of film and chemicals. In over fifty years practice she graduated from the total novice, who opened all her first mail order plates in bright sunlight and ruined them, to a competent photographer who became both the local press correspondent and an inveterate producer of humorous trompe l’oeil postcard images.
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- Writers:
- Hall, Barbara
- Date written:
- 1995
- Last updated:
- 2011
