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Mark McKenna wrote:
“This year, I want to highlight one book in particular. For anyone interested in the long struggle for Indigenous rights in Australia, photographer Juno Gemes’s Until Justice Comes (Upswell Publishing) is essential reading. For more than five decades, Gemes has travelled across the continent documenting landmark moments in the history of Indigenous activism. While the book contains numerous valuable essays, it is Gemes’s photographs that reveal the extraordinary determination and perseverance of Indigenous Australians in the face of so much indifference and so many false promises. At a time when the country is still to find a way forward after the failure of the 2023 referendum, Gemes’s photographs offer sustenance and hope. The result of a lifetime’s work and commitment to the broader struggle, Until Justice Comes is a rare achievement.”
Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights
Juno Gemes is a photographer with a lyrical eye, she turns up at all the important times and places enjoined in political activism, culture and art.
Juno Gemes leans ‘in’ to compose a photograph, I know because I have watched her work. She has taken us ‘in’ to her lyrical visual documents weaving ‘in’ and around the edges of important political activism for more than half a century.
Tracey Moffatt, 2020
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And Patrick Mullins included The Prime Minister’s Potato by Anne-Marie Conde in his list:
“In The Prime Minister’s Potato and other essays, Anne-Marie Conde brought wry and wise insight to bear on a collection of overlooked and discarded curios and characters.”