The show has now been packed up and is making its way to the June Meyer Gallery in Sydney’s Darlinghurst where it will be opened tomorrow night by show organiser and 60s fashion icon Prue Acton with photographer Richard Green and special guest Akira Isogawa.

It then heads to the ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery for another opening on August 5, before finally making its way back to Gallery Bodalla where it will remain on show from November 5 to December 4.

More than 120 people braved the cold to attend Thursday’s opening in Bermagui.

The stunning exhibition was opened by music from the choirs, led by Dan Scollay and Geoffrey Badger, which sang the Koala Anthem with words by Chris Allen set to music by Geoffrey.

The film “Six Photographers Go Bush” premiered and was well received, as were the oysters from Tathra Oysters, Nelsons Lagoon and the pizzas donated by Il Passagio, wines donated by David and Libby Bright and served by Matt Jones; with Tamara Joukoff supervising the plentiful nibbles.

Faith Aldridge presented the “Welcome to Country” and received a big applause for her bringing a legal case against Forests NSW’s illegal logging of an Aboriginal place.

National Museum of Australia director Andrew Sayers made a “pin-drop” speech.

“These photographers celebrate the forest, from the microscopic to the panoramic; they reveal the immense variety of landscapes, micro-climates and intimate places of the region; they honour the ancient and continuing Aboriginal connections to these places. Together, they let the forest make a powerful statement for its preservation.”

Gallery Bodalla’s Valerie Faber and Sculpture on the Edge organiser Jan Ireland, helped by some of the photographers and sculptors, produced an outstanding show of the sensational works by Wesley Stacey, Richard Green, Heide smith, John Reid, Gordon Undy, Judith Deland and Rob Blakers, which were backed up by local photographers.

Comments included, “Never seen better.”

Thousands of people are expected to see the exhibition in Bermagui, Sydney and Canberra, with some major sales anticipated, as well as proceeds from memento postcard sets from the six invited photographers who attended the photographers’ camp at Ngairn, Tanja.

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