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Everything about Mervyn Bishop totally explainedMervyn Bishop (b. 1945), is one of Australia's first professional Aboriginal photographers, and one of the country's pre-eminent news photographers.
Early life
He is from Brewarrina in north-west NSW. His father, "Minty" Bishop, had been a soldier and shearer, and was himself born to an Aboriginal mother and a Punjabi Indian father. In 1950, "Minty" gained an "official exemption certificate which permitted 'more advanced' Aborigines to live apart from mission blackfellas in post-war Australia". This enabled the family to live among "ordinary" people in Brewarrina. The catch to this certificate was that the exempt Aborigines were expected to "sever their ties with their old culture". He moved to Dubbo when he was 14 to finish his high school at the Dubbo High School.
His wife, Elizabeth, died of cancer in 1991, and he was left to care for their teenage son, Tim, and six-year-old daughter, Rosemary.
Career
He began his career as a cadet photographer with The Sydney Morning Herald in 1962, the first Aboriginal photographer ever hired by the paper. His aim in the show was to delve "into his family's history to illuminate a wider story about Aboriginal life in the latter half of the 20th century". He also worked as a stills photographer on Phillip Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence.
Awards
- 1971: He won the Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year for Life and Death Dash, a photograph, which had appeared on the front page of the Herald in January 1971, depicting Sister Anne Burn carrying a child (who had taken an overdose) into hospital
- 2000: He was awarded the Australia Council's $50,000 Red Ochre Award, through its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board.
Exhibitions
1991, Images of Black Sport, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1991, Her Story: Images of Domestic Labour in Australian Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery
1992, Cultural exchange with the Chinese Photographic Society and Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
1993, Aratjara: Art of the First Australians1994
1993, Urban Focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1998, Retake: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Photography, National Gallery of Australia
2003, New View: Indigenous Photographic Perspectives, Monash GalleryFurther Information
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