For almost a century, thousands of Fairfax employees filed daily past the grainy photograph of a stern looking gentleman astride a horse, a quaint looking box strapped to his chest. The 1910 image of George Bell – widely believed to be Australia’s first press photographer – oversaw the daily bustle of one of the country’s largest media empires, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Australian Financial Review, the Canberra Times, the Sun-Herald, and a host of rural and regional publications.
When Fairfax left its Jones Street premises in Sydney in the 1990s, George went too, rehung in the corridors of the slick new building in Sussex Street, and again when the company moved to Pyrmont in 2007.
