The Birdsville Cup
In 2015, using crowdfunding, I designed & published a book of photographs taken at the Birdsville Races to help raise money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The photographs were taken over two student trips from Queensland College of Art in 1989 and 1990.
"We have a brief to collect a visual record of life in Queensland - I think your photographs marvellously capture this very particular time and place." Gavin Bannerman, State Library of Queensland
"Here lies the heart of this book as a document of times past that live on through the photographer's gaze, in isolation in the camera and capture. Mitchell's black and white photographs are gritty and grainy in true documentary style....she brings her subjects up close and personal - a characteristic that creates for the reader a conversational bridge with the person or subject pictured. I recommend this book to anyone, including those who have never been to a Birdsville Cup, to experience the journey and live a little of the Cup through the images, texts and narrative that they contain." Dr Doug Spowart
"We have a brief to collect a visual record of life in Queensland - I think your photographs marvellously capture this very particular time and place." Gavin Bannerman, State Library of Queensland
"Here lies the heart of this book as a document of times past that live on through the photographer's gaze, in isolation in the camera and capture. Mitchell's black and white photographs are gritty and grainy in true documentary style....she brings her subjects up close and personal - a characteristic that creates for the reader a conversational bridge with the person or subject pictured. I recommend this book to anyone, including those who have never been to a Birdsville Cup, to experience the journey and live a little of the Cup through the images, texts and narrative that they contain." Dr Doug Spowart
