Almost 50 years ago, two young photographers – Rennie Ellis from Melbourne and Wesley Stacey from Sydney – embarked on a six-month project to photograph the bustling Kings Cross scene. Hippies, artists, drag queens, prostitutes and American GIs on leave from Vietnam all passed in front of their cameras – and the results were immortalised in a 1971 book that was launched with an exhibition and party at the famous Yellow House artists' collective in Macleay Street. The book has been out of print for many years, but Ellis’s images are on show once again this month, as part of Head On Photo Festival.
Check out our Head On Photo Festival guide.
