In memoriam: Spanning four decades, the best photographs by Michael Clayton-Jones in The Age
28 ImagesMichael Clayton-Jones worked as a photographer at The Age from the late 1980s until 2014. He died from cancer last week. Michael will be sadly missed by friends and colleagues. This is a collection of some of his best work for The Age.
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Damian, from Assumption College Killmore found the butterflies in Melbourne Zoo’s butterfly enclosure, 1999.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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The Bee Gees in concert at the Melbourne Tennis Centre, 1989.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Sisters Merindah Punch, Jannali Punch and Nina Punch of the Koori scout group, 1999.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Local lads take advantage of a broken fire hydrant on the corner of River and Malcolm streets in South Yarra for respite from Melbourne’s 40-degree heat, 1998.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Bernard Finn with wife and son Dale, who has spina bifida, and daughter Beckey, 1991.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Fishermen brave the elements on a bleak Queen’s Birthday public holiday at Half Moon Bay, Melbourne, 1999.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Chef Gabriel Gate in 1991.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Michelle Finn and partner Gery were woken by scratching noises of their pet rabbit (named Rabbit) to find their partly renovated home ablaze in 2008.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Surf life-savers Steve Leahy and Brian Happ introduce Sergei Yeromenko and scouts Russell Davies and Nick Duell to “rubber ducky” riding. The 42 children from Kyiv were guests of the Victims of Chernobyl National Relief Fund, who stayed with Australian families for more than a month in 1991.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Meatloaf performs live at the Glasshouse in Melbourne, 1996.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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At the end of a solid training session, the Victorian women’s State of Origin team players collapse in their Box Hill Football Club changing rooms, 1993.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating arrives at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne for the premiere of Keating! The Musical.Credit:Michael Clayton Jones
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Japanese developer Kumagai Gumi captured Melbourne’s 19th century Shot Tower and imprisoned it under a 21st century glass cone. The 100-year-old tower and its cell where lead shot was once made are major design features of Gumi’s $1.2 billion Melbourne Central, the office and retail complex which opened in spring, 1991.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Rolf Harris was a guest at the 2008 Aria Hall of Fame at Melbourne Town Hall.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Actor and singer-songwriter John Waters in 1992. Credit:Michael Clayton Jones
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From left: Jet rock band members Cameron Muncey, Mark Wilson, Chris Cester and Nic Cester. Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Sir Zelman Cowen marked his 75th birthday and his retirement as chairman of John Fairfax Holdings, publisher of The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review, with a dinner at the Windsor Hotel in 1994. Sir Zelman, who remained a director of Fairfax after retirement, was Australia’s governor-general from 1977 to 1982.Credit:Michael Clayon-Jones
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Fitzroy residents vented their feelings when they gathered in the emptied swimming pool in 1994 to protest its planned closure.Credit:Michael Clayton Jones
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Music teacher Don Scott with some of his students from Princes Hill Secondary College in North Carlton in 1993.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Police surround handcuffed accused killer Wayne Walton at Barwon River as he re-enacts events leading up to the Wettenhall triple murder in March 1992. Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Protesters against French nuclear testing march down Collins Street en route to the Western Mining building in 1995.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Professor Wayne Morrison, chief microsurgeon at St. Vincent’s Hospital, and his team replanted a 28-year-old Shepparton woman’s face after it was torn off by farm machinery.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Trade unionist Laurie Carmichael at an ACTU conference in 1991.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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US-based actors and former partners Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness arrive at Melbourne Airport with their children in 2006.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Esprit’s Richmond store manager Geraldine Pineda outside one of retailing’s few bright spots in 1991.Credit:Michael Clayton Jones
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The inaugural Pride March at the Midsumma Festival in 1996.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Norm Buckingham, a long-time resident of Fitzroy, was among people who gathered at the Fitzroy Town Hall for the launch of a book documenting the history of their suburb in 1989.Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones
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Michael Clayton-Jones.Credit:Jason South
