Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Kerry & Co., Sydney

Archive Collections / Kerry & Co., Sydney
From : 1890
To : 1917

Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928) was born in Bombula, NSW.

Kerry joined Alexander Henry Lamartiniere's photographic studio in 1874 and around 1883 became partner. Soon after Lamartiniere absconded with Kerry's small capital, but he carried on in partnership with CD Jones, until around 1890, when Jones departed and Kerry set up his own studeio as Kerry and Co, based in Sydney.

In 1885 Kerry was asked to prepare an exhibit of Aboriginal portraits and ceremonies for the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition. In 1890, the Governor of New South Wales, Lord Carrington, appointed Kerry as his official photographer.

Kerry left the firm in 1911 however from 1913 he toured the Pacific, taking photographs in Tonga, New Caledonia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Samoa. The studio closed in 1917.

Later, in 1928 he accompanied a scientific party to the islands of the Great Barrier Reef. He died soon after his return.

In 1937 Sir Frank Packer named his son after Charles, Kerry Packer.

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