Review

Warren Kirk's latest collection of photography vividly evokes a lost era of Melbourne suburbia

By Sasha Grishin
November 14 2020 - 12:00am
Thornbury, from Warren Kirk's Northside.
Thornbury, from Warren Kirk's Northside.
  • Northside: A Time and Place, by Warren Kirk. Scribe Publications. $35.

It was the libraries of Australia, especially the State Library of Victoria and the National Library of Australia in Canberra, that commissioned photographers to travel to rural towns and to inner suburbia to capture remnants of a vanishing world - its buildings, rituals and its people. Although this form of "nostalgia documentary photography" was not peculiar to Australia, the Australian examples bring with them their own flavour and one can think of the memorable images by Mark Strizic, Joyce Evans, Maggie Diaz, David Moore, Rennie Ellis and William Yang.

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