Mervyn Bishop
Australian Photographer
Mervyn Bishop (born July 1945) is an indigenous Australian news and documentary photographer. 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.
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Mervyn Bishop: Is there an Aboriginal photography? 1989
Collection - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Resources:
Book Launch, Black white + Colour, Gael Newton March 2026
Wikipedia entry on Mervyn Bishop.
Mervyn Bishop: Close Up - 2025-2027 exhibition at the State Library of new South Wales.
Josef Lebovic Gallery (Sydney): put Mervyn Bishop in the search for list of works available.
National Indigenous Times: Mervyn Bishop: First Aborignal news photographer 2025
A link to the launch of the delux edition of Black White + Colour, Gael Newton 26 March 2026.
First Generation: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Photographers, Gael Newton, 1998.
All editions of Black White + Colour are listed on the Douglads Stewart Fine Books web site, click here
The book is also available at Josef Lebovic Gallery (Sydney): search for Mervyn Bishop
Link to other essays by Gael Newton AM
photo-web contents page - click here