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Mervyn Bishop was born on 19 July, 0045 in Brewarrina, New South Wales, Australia, is an Australian news and documentary photographer. Discover Mervyn Bishop's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Born 19 July 0045
Birthday 19 July
Birthplace Brewarrina, New South Wales, Australia
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1945

Mervyn Bishop (born July 1945) is an Australian news and documentary photographer.

Mervyn Bishop, a Murri man, was born in July 1945 in Brewarrina in north-west New South Wales.

His father, "Minty" Bishop, had been a soldier and shearer, and was himself born to an Aboriginal mother and a Punjabi Indian father.

1950

In 1950, "Minty" gained an "official exemption certificate which permitted 'more advanced' Aborigines to live apart from mission blackfellas in post-war Australia".

This enabled the family to live among "ordinary" people in Brewarrina.

The catch to this certificate was that the exempt Aboriginal people were expected to "sever their ties with their old culture".

Bishop's work was included in Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s at the Art Gallery of South Australia (May to August 2010), a group retrospective of social documentary photography which also featured the work of key Australian photographers Max Dupain, David Moore, Jeff Carter, Robert McFarlane, Rennie Ellis, Carol Jerrems and Roger Scott.

A number of Bishop's photographs are held in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Australia.

1962

Joining The Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in 1962 he was the first Aboriginal Australian to work on a metropolitan daily newspaper and one of the first to become a professional photographer.

Bishop began his career as a cadet photographer with The Sydney Morning Herald in 1962, the first Aboriginal photographer hired by the paper, becoming the first Aboriginal person to work on a metropolitan daily newspaper and one of the first to become a professional photographer.

During four years of his cadetship, he completed a Photography Certificate Course at Sydney Technical College.

1963

or 1963,

By high school he had started "chronicling the family with a camera – first his mother's Kodak 620 and, then a 35mm Japanese camera he bought for £15".

He moved to Dubbo when he was 14 to finish his high school at the Dubbo High School.

1971

In 1971, four years after completing his cadetship, he was named Australian Press Photographer of the Year.

He has continued to work as a photographer and lecturer.

He won the Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year in 1971 with Life and Death Dash (1971).

1974

From 1974 to 1980, he worked as the Department of Aboriginal Affairs staff photographer.

Some of his most enduring work came from this period, as he visited Indigenous communities and documented "the first flush of an idealistic era when land rights, equal wages and government-funded aid seemed to presage a new dawn for Aboriginal Australians".

1975

It was during this time, in 1975, that he shot the iconic photograph of Gough Whitlam pouring soil into the hand of Gurindji traditional owner, Vincent Lingiari, at the handover of the deeds to Gurindji country at Wattie Creek.

This photograph has been seen as capturing "the symbolic birth of landrights".

1979

He returned to the Herald in 1979, before becoming a freelance photographer in 1986, working for such agencies as the National Geographic Society.

Bishop completed further studies and lectured in photography at Tranby Aboriginal College, the Eora College and at the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney.

1991

In 1991 he had his first solo exhibition, In Dreams: Mervyn, Thirty Years of Photography 1960 to 1990, at the Australian Centre for Photography.

Originally curated by Tracey Moffatt, it went on to tour for over 10 years.

A book titled In Dreams was published to accompany the exhibition.

His wife, Elizabeth, died of cancer in 1991, and he was left to care for their teenage son, Tim, and six-year-old daughter, Rosemary.

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2004

In 2004, he remained the only indigenous photographer to have been employed by the paper.

He produced a one-man performance piece, Flash Blak, in the vein of a William Yang slide show to music and written and directed by Yang, for the 2004 Message Sticks Festival at the Sydney Opera House.

His aim in the show was to delve "into his family's history to illuminate a wider story about Aboriginal life in the latter half of the 20th century".

He also worked as a stills photographer on Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence.

2013

Bishop features in "Through the Eyes of Lens with Merv Bishop", an episode in the 2013 documentary television series Desperate Measures.