Interned: Torrens Island 1914 - 1915
The book Interned: Torrens Island 1914 – 1915 was produced to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the South Australian Migration Museum.
The story of the Torrens Island Interment Camp is a fascinating and important story to tell … during the first world war a group of South Australian citizens of German descent were rounded up and interned on Torrens Island off the metropolitan coast. Amongst those interned was a young photographer, Paul Dubotzki who documented the daily struggles and small moments of joy. Dubotzki’s wonderful images formed the basis of the exhibition and book.
The photographs themselves, with their rips and tears and weathered edges, have their own history and it was important to me to show this along with the images they portray.