SMH: The age of innocence
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SMH: The age of innocence
By Matt Bungard
If the old nursery rhyme is to believed, slugs and snails and puppy dogs’ tails are what boys are made of. But photographer (NAS Head of Public Programs and Senior Lecturer in Photomedia) Ella Dreyfus believes she has instead detected a fragile innocence in her young subjects that is rarely talked about.
Image: Ella Dreyfus with her exhibition, Under Twenty-Seven.
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