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Mildura Weekly : Friday March 6 2015 Vol 9 No 17
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14 NEWS MILDURA WEEKLY FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015 A MEMORABLE photograph on the cover of an even more memorable book has been re-lived, with Irymple Rotar- ian Vince Congiusta, 58, ex- plaining the cover shot aspartofa ‘show and tell’ at a club meeting. Vince was just 24, and in his first year of teach- ing at Irymple in 1981 when a photograph was taken of him entering the water feet first af- ter a somersault dive off the three-metre springboard at Mildura Olympic Pool. Vince wasn’t aware at the time that 100 of the world’s greatest photo-journalists had been given the job of shooting ‘A Day in the Life of Australia,’ and one of them, Arnaud De Wilden- berg, was given Mildura as his shoot location. • Continued Page 16 ADayin the Life of Australia The 1981 idea was a bold one. Get some of the world’s best photographers to capture people, places and events in Australia – in one day! The $1million gamble, complete with backing from a Prime Minister, was a world-wide phenomenon, with a young Mildura school teacher featured on the cover of... alan.erskine@milduraweekly.com.au By Alan Erskine FRIDAY People shooting ‘A Day in the Life ‘Avalon’ Visit www.house.com.au & join our VIP Shop T48 Mildura Central P 03 5021 3877 F 03 5021 3558 Christopher Vine’s new collections are now available in store. ‘Alcazar’ ‘Cotton Bud’ 19a Kauri Street, Red Cliffs PO Box 711, Red Cliffs, VIC, 3496 F: 5024 1711 E: store@ptrural.com.au
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