SMH: The age of innocence

Wednesday 23 October 2019
Ella Dreyfus Art Forum image revised

SMH: The age of innocence

Wednesday 23 October 2019

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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