Notebook Revelations: Juno Gemes’ portrait of James Baldwin / Juno Gemes: The Movement for Civil Rights in Australia, 1971 to 2010 / Canticle for the Bicentennial Dead by Robert Adamson

Juno Gemes is a renowned photographer/writer and she has been a Co-Director of Paper Bark Press with Robert Adamson. She is currently working on a major publication  Something Personal: Chronicles  from The Movement 1975-2021 to be published in 2021.

‘Juno Gemes’ photography speaks to me in many ways. It expresses a language that enlightens, teaches and traverses across cultures and time, it is what historians yearn for. Her photography is like shared unspoken words which moves through the body like music. It is not just pretty pictures that sit on the page, but it shines a light on things that largely go unnoticed or dismissed by the loud majority. Like a blink of an eye, Juno freezes a moment that is able to linger; to remind us of where we have been and where we come from. As an Aboriginal historian Juno’s work is so incredibly valuable to me, not only because it allows me to see things which no longer exist, but helps me to record the present so that I as an historian may be able to speak to Aboriginal generations in the future.’
 – Frances Peters-Little is a Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay woman. She is a filmmaker/historian and author currently on the advisory committee for the Rediscovering The Deep Human Past Laureate Program at the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.

‘Juno Gemes is a highly celebrated Australian documentary photographer who has been viewed by many as the social conscience of Australian photography. Technically brilliant, her work has been at the forefront in witnessing the changing social fabric in Australia over the past four decades. As no other photographer, Gemes has consistently been on the frontline in documenting the ongoing struggles and achievements of Aboriginal Australians and has done this with great dignity, empathy and beauty.’
 – Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA

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Notebook Revelations: Juno Gemes’ portrait of James Baldwin / Juno Gemes: The Movement for Civil Rights in Australia, 1971 to 2010 / Canticle for the Bicentennial Dead by Robert Adamson

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