‘Karroo: Mates’ – Communities reclaim their images

Abstract

Karroo is a booklet showing the 1938 Brewarrina photographs from the Tindale Archive, held by the South Australian Museum, in which Roy and June Barker have strengthened their use of photographs to consolidate and extend this ongoing community conversation about both kin and mates. Their choice of Karroo: Mates reflected their affectionate warmth towards the people themselves but also their sense of the bonds across and beyond families, linking the people in those old photographs not only with tradition but with change, with both the present and the future.