Jill Gocher, Photographer... more from Peter Leiss.
In September this year Peter Leiss went to Bali to film an interview with photographer Robert Rosen and also to make a short film called ‘BALI beyond the cliché’ (see below) While he was in Bali Peter met photographer Jill Gosher who had also been a student at Prahran CAE, one year later than Peter had been there. Peter sent me these notes about his meeting with Jill: Jill Gocher's interview I produced this past September as one of 22 photographers I've interviewed since 2017. All 22 were involved in the unique experiment in making an educational course in Photography, highlighting it as an art form rather than as a commercial endeavour. The Photography Course at Prahran CAE from 1966 to 1980 was a whole new approach designed to bring forth this medium as an intense personal objective. The outcome of all my interviews displays a rich and diverse expression in an Art School during a period of conservative values when some desperately wanted ...