The Governor & inmates of Bathurst Correctional Centre; Prostitute in Darlinghurst; Drug user in Redfern; Lidcombe woman, 1983-2005 / photographed by John Ogden

PXE 940

fonds

1983-July 2005

Graphic Materials, Photographs

447095

8 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 31 x 41 cm.

1. Working woman, Darlinghurst, 1983
Shows a woman in high-heeled shoes, seated crossed-legged at the front door of a stone terrace house.

2. The Block, October 1998
Shows a young man, injecting drugs inside a house at the The Block, Redfern (residential housing), before a wall covered in graffiti.

3. Sue Wye, Governor, Bathurst Prison, May 1999
Portrait of Sue Wye, standing in uniform before a prison guard tower.

4. Rub MGrritt, X Wing, Bathurst Correctional Centre, May 1999
Portrait of a man, playing guitar on a bed in a prison cell, before an illustration of a goanna.

5. Thomas Mitchell, X Wing, Bathurst Prison, May 1999
Portrait of Thomas Mitchell, standing at the entrance of a prison cell.

6. A-Wing, Bathurst Prison, June 1999
Shows four First Nations men in front of a serpent mural.

7. A-Wing, Bathurst Prison, June 1999
Shows three First Nations men in front of a mural with the caption reading: "The Koorie Flag, Black is the colour of our skin, Yellow is the sun that shines, Red is our land & our blood", and drawings of Aboriginal faces on each side.

8. West meets East, Lidcombe, July 2005
Shows a woman with shopping trolley in front of a house with a sculpture of a First Nations male on the front lawn.

Chronological

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: John Ogden
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales courtesy John Ogden.

Technical printing notes written on reverse in pencil, in photographer's hand.
Some of these images were reproduced in Ogden's book 'Australienation: Portrait of a Bi-cultural country. Avalon Beach', N.S.W. : Cyclops Press, 1999 (1-3,5,7).

Each print signed by the artist in 2005, on the reverse in pencil.

Each print is titled and dated by photographer on reverse in pencil

Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries - State Library of New South Wales (29 October 2023-20 October 2024). Applies to no. 8