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Portrait power: photojournalist Lorrie Graham’s five-decade career – in pictures

20 Sept 2026 11:00 AEST Summary

Photography Rupert Murdoch Jeffrey Smart Cate Blanchett Jimmy Barnes

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Drawn from more than 100,000 images and negatives created between 1975 and 2025, the exhibition Lorrie Graham: Photojournalist is on now at the State Library of NSW.

Graham was the first female photography cadet at the Sydney Morning Herald and worked in London at the Observer and the Times on Sunday before returning to Australia to freelance there and overseas

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