The Circus Diaries: Andrea Lemon with Dollie Lennon and photographer Cal MacKinnon at Lennon Bros Circus.

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The Circus Diaries is a wonderful oral history and photographic project documenting traditional Australian circus life from the 1920's to the present. Over the past three years I have travelled through much of Australia interviewing and photographing circus elders and families, and living with traditional circuses.

The Circus Diaries is a PhD project in partnership with The Australian Centre of Melbourne University and the Performing Arts Collection of the Arts Centre, Victoria.The Circus Diaries exhibition opened at the George Adams Gallery of the Arts Centre, 100 St. Kilda Rd, Melbourne, on May 18th, and ran till July 15th, 2007. The exhibition was an outcome from my Australian Circus Oral History PhD research and features photographs by Cal MacKinnon. To see some of Cal's contemporary images from The Circus Diaries exhibition, please click on the link to her website on the right.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Andrea Lemon with Dollie Lennon and photographer Cal MacKinnon at Lennon Bros Circus.

Cal and I visited Lennon Bros Circus in Liverpool, Sydney in March 2006. Dollie Lennon is the matriarch of the family. This photo was taken not long before her 90th birthday.