Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Listen to photojournalist Mike Bowers talking about the legacy of Fairfax’s first photographer George Bell and what it would have been like to work as a photographer in his time.

View this portrait and more glass plate photographs in our Fit to Print exhibition: https://www.library.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/fit-print-defining-moments-fairfax-photo-archive-selected-mike-bowers