Veteran photographer and graphic designer Barry Ledwidge, 79, who should write his memoirs , is shown in the Darwin Smith Street Mall recently pointing out where he had open heart surgery . Bazza is an old friend of this blog , so we retrieved a special post , below, run in 2015, to flesh him out, as it were , and to further rock our readers.
ACE PHOTOGRAPHERS CAPTURED NORTHERN TERRITORY CYCLONE DEVASTATION AND LIFESTYLE
Top End photographers, Beat Erismann , left, and Barry Ledwidge , were present when the massive Cyclone Tracy smashed Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974 and their record of the event is captured in the booklet below .
Dixon later sent Barry to Darwin with the Australian News and Information Bureau where Bazza became a famous newspaper reporter, celebrity , rock sitter , official photographer at Charles Darwin University for 22 years .
Beat, 62, worked at the Northern Territory News at the time of Cyclone Tracy and became a TV cameraman freelancing for Swiss television for 25 years . He and Bazza have had a long and colourful relationship.
One of the many unusual shots in the brochure shows Ledwidge sitting on a toilet seat in a ruined building photographing Prime Minister Gough Whitlam holding an open air press conference .The dramatic photographs present a unique view of the natural disaster .
More of Barry's camera magic is displayed in this booklet produced in connection with an exhibition at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin .The cover photo is of Vivienne Paspaley, matriarch of Paspaley Pearls.
NEXT: Bazza , Rocksitters and solar powered cars.
(Ledwidge. Photography. Darwin )
