N.T. 74 – 77’ is a memoir: a time capsule of the Northern Territory fifty years ago, seen through the lens of Melbourne photographer Konrad Winkler. There are 89 images and 16 pages of stories of a free and easy world; of firstly teaching in the desert at Areyonga/Utju, a warm and welcoming Aboriginal community and then living in Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, when home was the office, and the office — behind the photocopier – was a bedroom of sorts. Winkler was given free rein to roam the outback and towns of the Territory to photograph whatever seemed interesting and relevant to the job of creating an archive of photos for the Curriculum Branch of the Education Department, in part, so that Aboriginal students didn’t always have to look at photos of white adults and children.

Konrad Winkler has been exhibiting his photographs since 1997. Born in Angaston, South Australia in 1948, he studied at Melbourne and New England universities before working in the Northern Territory as a teacher, and later as a photographer and graphic artist with the Commonwealth Teaching Service.

His work is often intensely personal, but with a sense of humour to undercut any elements of self-importance or maudlin feeling, often returning to those closest to him – his wife, children, mother-in- law, friends and colleagues – as subjects.

This is Konrad Winkler’s third book with M.33 following on from
‘Moments of My Life’ (2015) and ’Diana Among the Humans’ (2017).

Winkler’s work is held in a number of private and public collections including the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Art Gallery of Ballarat; Warrnambool Art Gallery; Horsham Regional Art Gallery; Cunningham Dax Collection, Melbourne; Maroondah City Council Art Collection and The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne.