Jeff Carter (1928–2010) was one of Australia’s most prolific photojournalists and documentarians of the twentieth century. Born in Melbourne in 1928, Carter made his first photographs in the 1940s. After finishing high school in 1946 he set off to travel around Australia with his camera and typewriter. His aim was to record the lives of ordinary ‘Australians’. Over half a century Carter recorded Australian people at work and leisure in the country and in the city. Although he wrote and illustrated 17 books, his photographs were not much exhibited until the 1990s. The Jeff Carter archive contains over 150,000 images and a major collection of his work is held at the State Library of New South Wales.

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