Mervyn Bishop was born on July 1945 and is an Australian news and documentary photographer.
11 Facts About Mervyn Bishop
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Mervyn Bishop has continued to work as a photographer and lecturer.
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Mervyn Bishop, a Murri man, was born in July 1945 in Brewarrina in north-west New South Wales.
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Mervyn Bishop's father, "Minty" Bishop, had been a soldier and shearer, and was himself born to an Aboriginal mother and a Punjabi Indian father.
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Mervyn Bishop moved to Dubbo when he was 14 to finish his high school at Dubbo High School.
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Mervyn Bishop returned to study later, receiving an Associate Diploma in Adult Education at Sydney College of Advanced Education in 1989.
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Mervyn Bishop won the Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year in 1971 with Life and Death Dash, a photograph which appeared on the front page of the Herald in January 1971, depicting a nun rushing to get help for an Aboriginal child.
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Mervyn Bishop returned to the Herald in 1979, before becoming a freelance photographer in 1986, working for such agencies as the National Geographic Society.
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Mervyn Bishop completed further studies and lectured in photography at Tranby Aboriginal College, the Eora College, and at the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney.
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Mervyn Bishop worked as a stills photographer on Phillip Noyce's 2002 drama film Rabbit-Proof Fence.
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Mervyn Bishop produced a one-man performance piece, Flash Blak, in the vein of a William Yang slide show to music and written and directed by Yang, for the 2004 Message Sticks Festival at the Sydney Opera House.