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Juno Gemes was born on 1944 in Australia, is an Australian photographer. Discover Juno Gemes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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1944

Juno Gemes (born 1944) is a Hungarian-born Australian activist and photographer, best known for her photography of Aboriginal Australians.

A performer, theatre director, writer and publisher, Gemes was one of the founders of Australia's first experimental theatre group The Human Body.

Juno Gemes was born in 1944 in Budapest, emigrating to Australia with her parents Alex and Lucy Gemes in 1949.

1960

Gemes worked in theatre and film, and worked in London sporadically in the late 1960s and 1970s, where she wrote for the London-based underground newspaper International Times.

While in London, Gemes performed in some of Yoko Ono's work including the avant-garde film Bottoms and a performance piece The scream at the Perfumed Garden.

1964

Gemes studied at the University of Sydney and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and graduated in 1964.

1966

Gemes began exhibiting her photography in Australia in 1966, and held her first solo exhibition, "We Wait No More", in 1982.

1968

In 1968 Gemes directed The Human Body Australia's first experimental theatre group, established with Johnny Allen and Clem Gorman.

Some of The Human Body Performances at the Powerhouse warehouse in Haymarket, featured a geodesic light dome built by Jacky Joy Jacobson and Michael Glasheen from 5,000 light bulbs.

Under Another Sky, Juno Gemes Photography 1968–1988, a survey of Gemes work from over twenty years was exhibited in Budapest and Paris in the late 1980s.

1971

In 1971, Gemes became involved with the Yellow House Artist Collective in Potts Point, Sydney.

Collaborating with another member of the Collective, landscape artist Mick Glasheen, to document traditional stories about Uluru.

They stayed in the Central Desert for six months in a geodesic dome seeking out the Pitjantjara elders in the area.

Gemes is known for her photographs depicting the cultural and political struggle of indigenous peoples in Australia, including land rights, the handing back of Uluru to the traditional owners, and the National Apology to the Stolen Generations in the Federal Parliament.

Gemes describes Nothing Personal by James Baldwin and Richard Avedon, which examines American culture including civil rights and the rise of black nationalism, as an early influence in her work.

1975

Gemes' son, Orlando Gemes, born in London in 1975, is pictured with Essie Coffey OAM in a portrait at the National Portrait Gallery.

He travelled with his mother as she documented Aboriginal people and activism.

1976

In 1976, Gemes photographed American civil rights leader James Baldwin on the rooftop of the Athenaeum Hotel in London.

1986

In 1986 Gemes and her partner Australian poet Robert Adamson co-founded, with writer Michael Wilding, independent publishing company Paper Bark Press (sometimes spelt Paperbark ), which published Australian poetry.

1990

Wilding left the company in 1990, and Gemes and Adamson continued to run the company until 2002.

1997

In 1997 Adamson and Gemes collaborated on the publication The Language of Oysters.

2008

Much of her work has documented the Aboriginal rights and land rights movements, from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to 2008 when she was one of ten photographers selected to officially document the Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples.

Gemes has thirty works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Australia.

Her papers are held at the National Library of Australia and the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales.

2018

In 2018, Gemes told The Sydney Morning Herald her reason for taking up photography: "It was because I saw that Aboriginal people were invisible that I took up the camera."