Author Ross Gibson cleverly captures the world of Sydney in 1946 sordid and bruised after decades of depredations. In The Summer Exercises, Gibson uses approximately 175 carefully selected black and white photographs from the collection of the Justice & Police Museum taken during the years immediately after World War II. These photographs, generated by NSW Police in the course of their investigations between 19451960, form a visual reference for a richly
imagined story to take place. Anchored in the realities of 1940s Sydney police investigative procedure, the work is an artistic re-invention of history as it happened.
