- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Measurements
- 15.4 × 22.6 cm (image)
- Place/s of Execution
- Reservoir, Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in blue ballpoint pen on reverse c.: © MÉHES / REPRODUCTION ONLY / CHUN FAMILY
inscribed in red fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.: 1989
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.: 73% P19 PIC 25
typed on accompanying paper label: “This is my family, my wife Mun, my eldest boy, Thoeun, and my other / children Koeum, Theam, Bunta. We are from Cambodia and both our families / were farmers. Our first boy was born in Cambodia, the next two children were / born in Thailand in a refugee camp called Khaoi I Dang, on the border with / Cambodia, where we lived for seven years. We came to Australia in 1987 and / our youngest child was born in Melbourne in that same year. I now have a job / in a factory making boxes for Ford Company, and my wife looks after our / home and the children. Our eldest boy, Thoeun, is at high school and the / other two are at state school. Our youngest is still at home. We have been / renting this house from the Ministry of Housing since December 1988. / CHEAN, MUN, THOEUN, KHOEUM, THEAM and BUNTA CHUN / RESERVOIR (underlined)
- Accession Number
- PH43-1992
- Department
- Australian Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation, Founder Benefactor, 1992
© Viv Méhes
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney
- Gallery location
- Not on display
