Online Catalogue last updated 17th of September 2023
This book gives you a photographic insight into the impressive work being done in shearing sheds throughout Victoria’s western district every day. See the shearers, the shed staff and the farming families as they carry out their shearing tasks in 160 working woolsheds.
The author, Tracey Kruger is rarely found without a camera in her hand, she spends winter Saturdays covering every netball and football game for Penshurst. Summer can find her at local cricket and she is regularly seen at events around the district, covering them for community groups or freelancing for district papers.
Tracey’s real love is the farm, especially shearing. She spent her childhood on a sheep farm, and married a farming husband as well. She says she never tires of watching a sheep be shorn, so it seems to have been a natural progression to start photographing woolsheds in action, and to then document their details in her new book, “Shearing in Victoria’s Western District.”
Tracey drove over 25,000 kms and spent 2 and a half years visiting 160 Western district woolsheds in action over their shearing. The glossy hardcover book contains over 800 colour photos of woolsheds ranging from one to eight stands and includes woolsheds in operation on their first day as well as sheds that had seen 170 years of sheep.
Code No. 016880, 224 pages, ISBN 9780992530808, $60.00