A photographer has shed some light on Kalgoorlie-Boulder's famous skimpy barmaids in a new exhibition, which was 18 months in the making as she documented the nightlife in pubs in the historic gold mining city.
Known as Mellen, a pseudonym of her real name, the photographer originally from Sydney shares her anonymity in common with skimpies who typically work under an alias.
The scantily clad barmaids arrived on Kalgoorlie-Boulder's pub scene in the 1970s and have since become part of the hard-working, hard-drinking culture of mining towns across Western Australia.
