Advertisement
Born in Budapest, photographer and social justice activist Juno Gemes has spent much of her remarkable career documenting the lives and struggles of First Nations people.Juno will be in conversation with local film director Penny McDonald, reflecting on her life and work, with a particular focus on her powerful book 'Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of the Movement for Indigenous Rights. Photographs 1970-2024'.
Tickets $10 - bookings essential via ticketing link.
About the book
'In a country so poor at keeping touch with its social history, Juno Gemes is a national treasure. Here she brings her close connection to Indigenous life and consciousness, and the keen eye of a master photographer, to five decades of Indigenous activity in politics, the arts and the intimacies of daily being. An indispensable record.'
— David Malouf
This significant book brings together a powerful collection of over 220 photographs, fusing Juno Gemes’ current and continuing work with her unique living archive. It is the summation of a career witnessing and advocating for change: a collection of photographs making visible the history of the First Nations people’s struggle for justice over the last fifty years in Australia, providing a visual history and background of The Movement leading up to the Voice referendum of late 2023.
'Until Justice Comes' is a landmark publication based on collaboration, revealing the true history of Australia. The uncovering of an often-invisible history of resistance and the fight for self-determination has long been at the heart of Juno Gemes’ engagement with the First Nations people she has known and worked with over decades and generations. These photographs include portraits of political and cultural leaders and intimate community events as well as activism played out on the streets. Continuing her collaborative approach, the book includes new writings and poems by key contributors including the Honourable Linda Burney MP, Larissa Behrendt, Djon Mundine, Fred Myers, Frances Peters-Little, John Maynard, Catherine de Lorenzo, and Ali Cobby Eckermann.
Photographs covering crucial moments in history including the Redfern Revolution, the land rights campaigns, the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, the election of eleven Indigenous Members to the 47th Federal Parliament, and the preparations for the 2023 Referendum on the Voice to Parliament, form the backbone of this book.
More about Juno:
Photographer and social justice activist Juno Gemes has spent much of her long career documenting the lives and struggles of First Nations people. Born in Budapest, Gemes moved to Australia with her family in 1949. She held her first solo exhibition, We Wait No More, in 1982; the same year she exhibited photographs in the group shows After the Tent Embassy and Apmira: Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights.
In 2003 the National Portrait Gallery exhibited her portraits of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander reconciliation activists and personalities, Proof: Portraits from the Movement 1978–2003, and has since acquired many of her photographs. Gemes was one of ten photographers invited to document that National Apology in Canberra in 2008. The Macquarie University Art Gallery held a survey exhibition of her work, The Quiet Activist: Juno Gemes, in 2019.
Advertisement
Event Venue
Red Kangaroo Books - 45 Todd Mall Mparntwe/Alice Springs, 79 Todd Mall, Alice Springs NT 0870, Australia, Alice Springs
Tickets
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.
