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Edward Scheer, Professor of Performance and Visual Culture, Head of School of Art and Design, UNSW Sydney

Illegal Sydney warehouse parties, lives lost to AIDS, and gay liberation: photographer William Yang captured it all

Men at Ken’s Karate Klub, Kensington in 1977. William Yang

Review: William Yang’s Sydneyphiles Reimagined, State Library of New South Wales.

We are all photographers now, since the advent of smartphones and the selfie. So it may seem strange to be writing a review of an exhibition of photographs when, in their digital form, they are both ubiquitous and at the same time largely redundant.

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