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I am a senior curator with almost 20 years of experience at Museums Victoria. I currently collect, research and interpret material culture relating to the history of the Australian photographic industry, and the practice of commercial and amateur photography.
I am passionate about engaging with our community, especially those people who once made or used the material in the collections that I now curate.
Along with a team of Museum staff and a group of former workers from Kodak Australasia, I am currently working on a long-term project to document and interpret the Kodak Heritage Collection, which I acquired in 2005. This extensive and significant collection, comprising many thousands of photographs, objects, documents and moving footage films relating to the company’s operation in Australia, is currently being registered, image-captured and published online, and oral history interviews are being undertaken with former staff. Check it out at - https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/2882
I am also embarking on an exciting new project, ‘The Camera at Work: Photographs of Melbourne Manufacturing Workers 1870s-1970s’.
Previously, with a small team of curators, collection managers, public programs staff and photographers, I was lead curator on a community collecting project in 2006. The result was the Melbourne’s Biggest Family Album Collection of over 1000 images, dating from the 1880s to the 1980s.