Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative making this work a kind

making this work a kind of peripheral self-portrait

It is evocative and mysterious – a vestige of feeling over exactness

'Rocky Bay

‘The Angelus’ is a deeply evocative image

Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative making this work a kindThe 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