A black and white photo of a small boy holding a camera up in front of his face to take a photo - he is standing on concrete paving and wearing up a zip up parka.

Beauty in Difference: The Street Photography of Jon Lewis

  • Past Exhibition

In honour of Multicultural March 2017, the Library is displaying 20 photographs from the Jon Lewis collection ‘Sydney Town Street Portraits’. Lewis highlights our culturally diverse city through images of its people. Over the past two years he has walked the streets of inner Sydney every day, creating portraits in homage to the street photographs of the 1930s to 50s. 

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Sydney NSW 2000
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Coming in 2018

In honour of Multicultural March 2017, the Library is displaying 20 photographs from the Jon Lewis collection ‘Sydney Town Street Portraits’. Lewis highlights our culturally diverse city through images of its people. Over the past two years he has walked the streets of inner Sydney every day, creating portraits in homage to the street photographs of the 1930s to 50s. 

A black and white photo of a small boy holding a camera up in front of his face to take a photo - he is standing on concrete paving and wearing up a zip up parka.
Street portrait 8, Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW, Jon Lewis, 20 July 2014