SUNDAY, 21 JANUARY 2024
Maggie Marriott
Managing Director
State Library of Victoria Resilient Country Victorians Photography Commission Our first Window on Collections is the Rural and Regional Photography Commission, a poignant series of photographs that document the year that was 2020 in regional Victoria. Captured through a local lens, these images share moments of regional life and its challenges in this extraordinary time. Discover more in our online gallery or see the series on display in the Victoria Gallery until January 2022. Help us Focus on country Victoria while these experiences are still vivid.What are the unique issues facing rural and regional Victorians? What do our communities hope for and how will recent events shape the future? The events of 2020 have had a tremendous impact on rural and regional Victorians, with years of drought culminating in a devastating bushfire season, followed by the arrival of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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