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Australian news and documentary photographer

Mervyn Bishop (born July ) is an Australian news and documentary photographer.

Joining The Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in , he was the first Aboriginal Australian to work on a metropolitan daily newspaper and one of the first to become a professional photographer.

Mervyn Bishop is a multi-award winning Aboriginal photographer from Brewarrina.

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Mervyn Bishop grew up in Brewarrina and took his first photographs at age 11 with a camera borrowed from his mother.

Mervyn Bishop, Lionel Rose, world champion Bantamweight boxer before departing to the United States to defend his title, Sydney Airport,

Mervyn Bishop (born ): One of the first Indigenous photographers in Australia, As Indigenous Australians continue to assert their place in modern society.

In , four years after completing his cadetship, he was named Australian Press Photographer of the Year. He has continued to work as a photographer and lecturer.

Early life and education

Mervyn Bishop, a Murri man,^[1] was born in July ^[2] in Brewarrina in north-west New South Wales.

His father, "Minty" Bishop, had been a soldier and shearer, and was himself born to an Aboriginal mother and a Punjabi Indian father. In , "Minty" gained an "official exemption certificate which permitted 'more advanced' Aborigines to live apart from mission blackfellas in post-war Australia".

This enabled the family to live among "ordinary" people i