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This significant book brings together a powerful collection of over 220 photographs, fusing Juno Gemes’ current and continuing work with her unique living archive. It is the summation of a career witnessing and advocating for change: a collection of photographs making visible the history of the First Nations people’s struggle for justice over the last fifty years in Australia, providing a visual history and background of The Movement leading up to the Voice referendum of late 2023.
Until Justice Comes is a landmark publication based on collaboration, revealing the true history of Australia. The uncovering of an often-invisible history of resistance and the fight for self-determination has long been at the heart of Juno Gemes’ engagement with the First Nations people she has known and worked with over decades and generations. These photographs include portraits of political and cultural leaders and intimate community events as well as activism played out on the streets.
Continuing her collaborative approach, the book includes new writings and poems by key contributors including the Honourable Linda Burney MP, Larissa Behrendt, Djon Mundine, Fred Myers, Frances Peters-Little, John Maynard, Catherine de Lorenzo, and Ali Cobby Eckermann. Photographs covering crucial moments in history including the Redfern Revolution, the land rights campaigns, the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, the election of eleven Indigenous Members to the 47th Federal Parliament, and the preparations for the 2023 Referendum on the Voice to Parliament, form the backbone of this book.
Creator: Juno Meme
Paperback Published 3 December 2024 300 pages
"In a country so poor at keeping touch with its social history Juno Gemes is a national treasure.
Here she brings her close connection to Indigenous life and consciousness and the keen eye of a master photographer to five decades of Indigenous activity in politics, the arts and the intimacies of daily being. An indispensable record."– David Malouf
“Until Justice Comes is the first fully retrospective testament to a woman universally revered for her artistry, activism, engagement and collaboration. It also shines with the warmth, wry side glances, acuity and determined end game that fill her images with life and hope.”– Gael Newton