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India Fur Coat and Black Bra Portrait Photo Shoot Arch Street Studio Philadelphia Ilford HP5 Plus ISO 400 35 mm B&W Film Contact Sheet Proof Print July 1995

Proof Sheet 1986 by Vanessa Tuggle-Hake

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This is a proof sheet of some of my mom's photography. About 1986.

proof-2798 by Brandon Koch

proof_109 by Mark Stevens

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Muriwai

Sinar f2 4x5

Rodenstock 90mm f45

Shanghai 100 iso film

Pyrocat-HD dev

Printed as a Platinum toned Kallitype

Anthony1196 by Krista Piper

Proof

Proof_307 by Carnival Sales & Trade Marketing

Proof by Mike Burns

In a rare capture, we see Sarah washing dishes in her kitchen. Without this photographic proof I doubt any would believe me.

Anthony487 by Krista Piper

Proof

Anthony129 by Krista Piper

Proof

The battle for Pt Parham : Esplanade by Michael Jenkin

Low resolution clip taken from very old video footage.

In 1983, Port Parham, in South Australia, faced a turning point.

Between the proposed Department of defence extension and the proposed airport at Two Wells, Port Parham and it's residents were about to become extinct.

A battle begun that ran for almost 4 years. 6 elderly residents passed away during the battle and in the last year, it looked like the future of the area for public use, was clouded.

The Army had created the "Department of defence, Proposed extension of the proof and experimental establishment, Pt , Draft environmental impact statement"

The Department of defence needed to test larger guns. The current area was the army firing range, Gun testing range and munitions testing area.

They needed to expand to test the new (At the time) 155 mm Howitzer. They needed to test it up to 6 times a year and needed 30 kms extra area (The range is 40 kms).

The Army faced three options.

Option 1 was to acquire land all the way up to Pt Prime (All the way from Sandy Point). This included Port Parham (Inhabited), Webb Beach(Inhabited) and Thompson Beach

(Uninhabited). Pt Prime being a previous shelling range and not a very nice beach). That leaves no real beaches north of Adelaide.

They did consider relocating all buildings and people to Pt Prime/Thompson's beach. Thompson's beach had no houses or infrastructure yet.

This plan would have been end to private land development planned at Thompson's.

This plan would include $5.5 million to acquire 5000 ha of land.

Option 2, move the firing range further north and fire into the existing area.

Option 3, close and relocate the firing range.

The preferred option for the Army was option 1. This meant they would compulsory acquire the land, lease it back for 10 years and close the beach. You cold see the beach but not

access it for the rolled up security barbed wire and armed men on hovercrafts. This was deemed to be in the national interest and a matter of "National Security. It was highlighted that

the Pt Wakefield range was the only lace in Australia where they can test the ammunition like this.

The army had been testing munitions in the mud flats since 1929 and it is littered with dangerous unexploded ammunition. They also test destroyer 5" navel shells and it is impossible

to recover all the shells. The Army has had access to the sea and airspace North of Pt Prime since the 2nd world war. (For all types of Weapons testing).

The army fired at high tide and retrieved munitions at low tide and then inspected them.

The area of Pt Parham was allocated to the army in 1937 for defence purposes. From 1978 government allowed freehold land and local council had been approving building permits.

The area North was not considered to have any restrictions except a building height restriction of 15 feet. The army approved many dwellings over this height since 1978.

The current proof range has been in use since about 1944. It is currently Sandy point to about 2 Kms north of Pt Parham. It is looked after by the Keswick Barracks which is a barracks

of the Australian Army in Keswick

As option 1 was pushed into the public space, it lead to all kinds of protests. During these, the gun on Pt Wakefield road was turned into a tent, defaced and graffiti.

This started the fight for land and homes. This plan would kill Pt Parham. Some of the current residents had been there since the depression. Some of them had settled in the area to

retire. There were 100's of full time residents and thousands of shack owners and other visitors that frequented the area.

The residents don't want to have the Army contaminate Pt Parham for all time, like they have where they are at the moment. They have already admitted that they will never be able to

clear the current mudflats of dangerous unexploded material. The residents also feared nuclear testing.

In July 1983 a document was released that outlined the process to compulsory acquire land. This is when the battled heated up. There were many meetings in the old social club (Grain

store - Webbs Carbonate of lime), at Collins Corner and beside the old shade house on the esplanade. There was a 13 point protest plan developed and issues were found in the

environmental impact study. Many people from Pt Parham and Webb beach attended the meetings, as did many holiday makers from across Australia.

People started to paint their fences and roof's with slogans.

"Army go home"

"P*ss off Army"

"Use a pond"

"Move the gun"

"St Kilda Next?"

"Sorry My Beazly, not for sale"

"We have enough shells"

"Only Beach north of Adelaide"

"People before Guns"

"I don't trust them"

"Not for Sale"

Hat's, stickers, shirts and beer cools came out with the slogans

"Save the crabbers and the gulf"

"Save the crabbers from the army shells"

I still have my yellow hat somewhere with the "Save the crabbers and the gulf" on the front. It is likely a rarity these days.

ABC, Channel 7 and 10 frequented the beach to have interviews with the residents and fly over the site in their helicopters.

Kevin Collins (member of Action Committee), Ian Featherstone (Chairman - Parham Action committee) and Leon Broster (Chairman Mallala council) appeared regularly on the news to

show that they were against the plans.

Local member John Meyer(?) and Lands minister Mr Abbot were against it but it was a federal issue and they could do nothing.

Len Web was interviewed. He had lived at Port Parham all his life and ran the shell grit plant. Shell grit is not widely available and sought after for poultry.

Col. Phillip Cooper and Major Andrew (Andy) Renolds came to Port Parham meetings to try and explain why this needed to happen. Barry Tompson of the

"Pt Wakefield friends of the proof range" wanted it to go ahead as he did not want Port Wakefield to die. He did not want the proof range to move.

Kim Beazley, the Federal defence minister, wanted to wait on the environmental study before making a decision. Premier John Bannon was against this.

After the battle, Kim Beazley compromised. In the end 2900 ha was acquired including 16 farms and 2 houses inland.

Pt Parham gave up 2 kms of land and coast (It was the army's anyway) and Port Parham has thrived ever since.

I still have access to the old footage.

proof by limnic6

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proof_204439 by Hans Jan Dürr

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Jan Snoeck sculptures

Pre-order proof by Kristen