Berylouise Mitchell Photography
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Latest news...
In December 2020 I published a book of my WWI centenary project, Mementos of our Grandfathers.  Forty copies were printed and distributed to the subjects in the book.  Printed by Darkstar Digital / design by Jill Sillar, Ashton Hunt 
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Recent news...2019

Since 2017 I have continued to collect images of men and women at work, especially fathers and sons and mothers and daughters who work together, this project has been ongoing for 30 years.
I am also documenting life in Kypseli, Athens - both my partner's family and on the streets!
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Two brothers, Mario and Sammi, are bartenders at Orfeas and Foivos Bars in Fokionos Negri, Kypseli. 
They lived in Oakleigh, Melbourne as children - the same suburb as my father and grandfather!

Recent news....2017

WWI: Mementos of our Grandfathers
Having discovered that on 29 January 2017 it was 100 years since my maternal grandfather, Harold Wyndham Lilja, landed in England en route to the muddy bloody battlefields of France as a 22 year old 2nd Lieutenant, 34th Battalion AIF, I posted a photograph and story each week for one year....on Facebook, Instagram and my new blog page below in his honour. This online exhibition was also in memory of my paternal Scottish grandfather, John Mitchell, who also served in France in WWI. Both were wounded in action. The lives of both were irrevocably altered. I never knew either of them.  I have now reached Week Fifty Two of this year long project.  Lest we forget!

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Recent news...2015

The Birdsville Cup
In 2015, to mark the 25 year milestone, I published a book "The Birdsville Cup" and had an exhibition documenting my student trips to the Birdsville Races in 1989 & 1990. Around 100 books were gifted to the Birdsville community to sell during their annual racing carnival with funds raised going to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
The book is dedicated to trainer George Dawson (1934 - 2012).
The National Library of Australia has acquired the book.
The State Library of Queensland has acquired 43 images for their collection on the history of this iconic event.


View a copy of the book at printer Momento's online shop: http://www.momentoshop.com.au/sp/id/16443
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Trainer George Dawson on early morning training run for the Birdsville Cup in 1990
PictureAnzac Day Tribute, Ashfield Park Australian Life 2014 finalist, Art & About, Hyde Park Sydney


It's Time to Remember

Timed to commemorate the centenary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, this exhibition was held at BLUE hotel on Woolloomooloo Wharf
8 - 26 April 2015. 
The series of Anzac Day photographs was dedicated to Legacy and to my grandfathers who served in WWI.
Almost $2,000 was raised for Legacy Australia.






The beginning...

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Unknown boy, The Rocks 1987
Photography began for me in 1986 while on a road trip from Perth to Sydney via the Pilbara when a friend lent me her Pentax Spotmatic with its 135mm lens.
I looked through the SLR viewfinder and it literally altered the course of my life.

I had discovered the world of black & white film photography!


...along the way

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My parents at Noosa 1991
Life changed again in 1989 when as a photography student at Queensland College of Art in Brisbane I discovered the wide angle lens. 

And then in 2004 I met Gordon Undy at point light gallery 
and started the life long journey to hone my craft.   Thank you Sandy Edwards for "pointing" me to Gordon.

My focus...

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Newtown 1995
My focus lies in street life, social documentary and photojournalism. 
I have a preference for the intimacy of a wide angle lens and black & white film.  As time in my tiny darkroom is precious I have now also embraced the immediacy of digital imaging.

Until now...

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From the Men at Work series
I have concentrated on photographing family and friends:  their homes, their pregnancies, their children and their pets.   

And I have also been documenting Men at Work for over 30 years.    
I continue to collect portraits of Fathers and Sons who work together.
And I am now working on a series of Women at Work.

Thanks go to Charles Page for help getting my initial website started in 2012 and for his critical eye and feedback!

©  All photographs belong to Beryl Louise Mitchell
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