Series[UMA-SRE-20140054] PHOTOGRAPHSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014005400286Extentnot specifiedScope and ContentContains: 36 black and white silver gelatin photographs total; 35 prints 25.5cm x 20cm and 1 print 25.5cm x 18cm. Photographs originally housed in Ilford photographic paper box [photographs removed and rehoused, box retained]. Germaine Greer has inscribed the back of each print, in pencil. Both sides of the prints have been digitised to capture these inscriptions. They document location, content and date. Inscriptions are listed here, in order that photographs appear on access PDF. "The spoils of famine / Sembate 24.IV.85"; "Young settlers / Gambella"; "Young settler, Gamba 20.iv.85"; "Recovered from pneumonia in Oromo, woman dressed as Amraha, her son as a Lapp, Dauder 22.iv.85"; "This woman was travelling with her mother and teenage daughter, Gamba, 20.iv.85, her head is annointed with butter"; "Boy victims of Vitamin A deficiency begging in Addis, chanting invocations and doing better than most"; The old woman and the dying child- Gute 23.IV.85"; Bhoan architecture comes to Aijon, a settler rebuilds his tukul, 24.iv.85"; Father with sick child Gambela 26.iv.85"; "The maths lesson / Asosa 10.IV.85"; image 21 mother and child no inscription; "Settlers Gamba 26.iv.85";"Even disabled family members are eligible Kone 24.iv.85"; photo 26 boy on bus no inscription; "Settlers on the bus Gamba 20.iv.85"; "Gamba 20.iv.85"; "Children frolic at Gute 23.iv.85"; "A volunteer at Addis, proud of his job and unaware of his useless leg"; "The Smithy, Assosa, 10.iv.85"; "Settlers selling mangoes in the market at Asosa"; image 39 woman selling mangoes no inscription; "Supplementary feeding Addis transit shelter"; "Bathtime Gute 23.iv.85"; "A welcome in the hill Aijo 24.iv.85"; "The pottery class Asosa 10.iv.85"; "A new arrival Gambela?"; "Settlers Gambela 26.iv.85"; "Traditional beehives Kone 24.iv.85"; "Orphans at Addis housing shelter 16.iv.85"; "Children welcome the settlers Aijo 24.iv.85"; "Welcoming committee Nekembe 24.iv.85"; "Settlers watch as their bus is dug out of a ditch between Ambo and Bako 23.iv.85"; "Gamba 20.iv.85"; "Settlers Gamba 20.iv.85"; "Smiling amid bleak conditions at Gute 23.iv.85"; "Women selling their ornaments Sembate 21.iv.85". . Photo lab invoice for printing adhered to box. Greer took these photographs while on assignment in Ethiopia for The Observer. They were never published. Subjects: Famines--Ethiopia; Journalism; Photojournalism.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0054 Unit 0018MenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
Greer, Germaine, Ethiopia [Photographs taken by Germaine Greer] (1985), [UMA-ITE-2014005400286]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 26/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/350554
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