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 to metamorphose it into something more commercially oriented.      


I was unaware of who Jill was as she was a student at Prahran CAE one year after I finished there.

I had never been to Bali, and I was always on the lookout to make a little film that eventuated as, ‘BALI beyond the cliché’ combining it with my interview of Robert Rosen.

It was who Robert suggested I interview Jill, which pleased me since very few women came forward to express their views on their years as students. I was more than delighted with Jill's enthusiasm and her articulate dissemination so fluidly.


Jill Gocher, Prahran CAE Photography 1971-1972





‘BALI beyond the cliché’




Thanks Peter, 

pt      3.11.2025

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