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Saturday 5 February at 3pm
About: Dr Martin Thomas is a cultural historian interested in place, representations of landscape and narratives of cross-cultural encounter especially in photography and the work of early Australian anthropologists. His acclaimed history The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains (Melbourne University Publishing, 2003) won the Gleebooks Prize for Literary and Cultural Criticism and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards the following year. His background is a visual arts writer, oral historian for the National Library and producer of over 15 documentaries for ABC radio since 1991. His documentary This is Jimmie Barker and I love you Jimmie won many awards. Currently he is Research Fellow at the Australian National University.
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Photos: Gus Poignant Berger
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