Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative the work is warm in

the work is warm in palette but lively in form

'Rocky Bay

as well as those invested in politics and the underdog

making this work a kind of peripheral self-portrait

‘The Angelus’ is a deeply evocative image

Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative the work is warm inThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this