Painters and Dockers ‘doing time’ at Docklands

I photographed an Australian pub rock band in the early 2000s Painters and Dockers – Negative ‘In the back of a Divi van’ ! But it looks a bit ominous in Melbourne’s old Docklands.

I had now become good friends with the lead singer of the experienced band. Paulie Stewart OAM (third from right) when we both worked in the newspaper world.

**This photo is part of an IA. A series that looks at Australia through the eyes of award-winning photojournalist Bill McAuley.**

Bill McAuley’s 40-plus-year news career began in 1969 as a student photographer at ‘The Age’ in Melbourne.

He has several published collections including ‘Portraits of the Soul: A lifetime of images with Bill McAuley’ and ‘Last Light on Victoria Dock, 1999’. Click to see more from Bill Here.

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