Melbourne photographer Carol Jerrems documented the anti-establishment counterculture of the 1970s, with her practice grounded in feminism and geared towards optimistic social change. Her most famous photograph, Vale Street 1975, is a portrait of then aspiring actor Catriona Brown with two teenagers, Mark Lean and Jon Bourke, both Jerrems’s former students from the Heidelberg Technical School in Melbourne. Standing in a St Kilda backyard, Brown assuredly occupies the foreground, flanked by Lean and Bourke, who hover eerily behind her. In an interview on ABC TV in 1999, Brown explained how Jerrems framed the image: ‘[Jerrems] chose the boys being angry, cunning and watching carefully, guarding themselves against my openness, directness and honesty . . . She was a great observer of people’.