Pol McMahon, aka Pol the Painter, is Fitzroy’s unofficial documentarian, historian, and passionate storyteller.
For more than 30 years, the self-taught artist has chronicled Melbourne’s oldest suburb through his observational artworks, usually created in Pol’s apartment — located in the Atherton Gardens public housing estate — or en plein air on the streets below.
Here, he tells his story.
Q & A: Fashion Photographer Della Bass
Della Bass became interested in photography while living in Japan in the mid 90s. Inspired by French and Italian films from the 1960s, she pursued