Equal pay demonstration 3 1985

MADDISON, Ruth

Registration number

1899483

Artist/maker

MADDISON, Ruth

Title

Equal pay demonstration 3

Production date

1985

Medium

photograph (digital image, scanned negative)

Credit line

Purchased 2024
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection
© Ruth Maddison

Keywords

Ruth Maddison, 1985, photograph, equal pay, equality, women, Bourke Street, protest, demonstration, feminism

Summary

This photograph by Ruth Maddison captures women participating in an equal pay demonstration on Bourke Street, taken in 1985. Since shooting her first roll of film in 1976, Ruth Maddison (b. 1945) has become one of Australia's foremost photographers. As a social documentary and feminist photographer, much of her work has captured Melbourne's social, cultural and political life.