Melbourne Photo Exhibit
The City Gallery is currently showing 'Viva Gibbs,' intimate documentary portraits of inner‑suburban Melbourne from the 1970s–80s — a rich source of urban portrait and cityscape inspiration for photographers []. The series foregrounds everyday lives and offers compositional cues for candid urban work and historical city studies [].
On The Street Where I Live: Viva Gibb’s portrait of North and West [Melbourne runs]citycollection.melbourne.vic.gov.au from 5 March to 7 August 2026 at City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall, and the presentation was curated by Savannah [Smith curated]viewcameraaustralia.org. More than 200 silver‑gelatin prints [were donated]beat.com.au by Gibb’s children, Sybil Gibb and Rupert Duffy, to the Melbourne Art Trust and form the core of the exhibition. Viva Jillian Gibb (1945–2017) [is recorded]maph.org.au as the photographer whose practice concentrated on North and West Melbourne between the mid‑1970s and the early [1990s noted]pgav.org.au. The [show includes]melbourne.vic.gov.au Gibb’s personal photo‑albums and essay contributions from author Helen Garner and photographer Ruth Maddison, and multiple outlets describe it as the largest presentation of her work in more than 30 [years reported]beat.com.au; a curator talk with Savannah Smith was scheduled for 11am on 14 March as part of the opening [program listed]melbourne.vic.gov.au.
