Pilgrimage: Hurley in the Middle East explores a previously unexamined
body of work from lifelong adventurer and documentarian Frank Hurley.
As one of the official Australian Imperial Force (AIF) photographers
involved in the First World War, he reprised his role with the Second
AIF during the Second World War, travelling around the Middle East and
North Africa. His official mission while in the Middle East was to
record Australian service members during the desert campaign of the
Second World War, but Hurley was entranced by the local cultures,
architecture and landscape and soon turned his lens towards them. This
Collections-In-Focus exhibition captures the remarkable landscape and
cultures of the area and Hurley’s deep passion for that part of the
world. Drawing on the Library’s extensive holdings of Frank Hurley
material it features photographs, along with his diaries, writings,
passport, guidebooks, map and other travel paraphernalia.
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