In black and white, as if bereav’d of light

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Lance Corporal John Gillespie on patrol (1971).

Lance Corporal John Gillespie on patrol (1971).

What is it about black and white photographs that envelopes them in the mists of time?  Now it seems, colour in television and in photography gives a clearer, if not always appealing, view of our world and our wars.

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One is never enough!

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Sir Douglas Mawson puts a chill into Australia's currency

Sir Douglas Mawson puts a chill into Australia’s currency

Who could be unmoved by Douglas Mawson’s words, “It was unutterably sad that he should have perished thus”….  (Home of the Blizzard, 1915)

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