Beattie's Studio - Forgotten Tasmania episode 301

Beattie's Studio.
From the 1840s, photographers started documenting Van Diemen's Land.
In 1879, Scottish immigrant John Watt Beattie said Tasmania was so beautiful it made his soul sing. He kick-started the tourism industry and explored the island extensively, going where no one had photographed before, adding to the photographic record of the people, places and events, including the convicts and indigenous peoples. When he died in 1930, they said his entire collection was destroyed. It's been largely forgotten ever since.
In 2013 multimedia artist John Stephenson inherited the collection and shared it with the world. Every photo gives a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar. Come on a journey as John uncovers the story behind these incredible photos and the more incredible places and people they depict.
We are Tasmanian, These are our stories, This is Beattie's Forgotten Tasmania.
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Forgotten Tasmania shares the wonder of Tasmania with the world.
John Watt Beattie left a legacy. He started a passion for Tasmania that is still burning more than 90 years after his death. His photographic collection gives us a view of Tasmania’s wilderness, industry, our people, both those that arrived in the last 200 years and those that were here before; our indigenous, convict and colonial ancestors.
These photographs are an extraordinary window into our past, they can take us back in time and show us how things have stayed the same or changed with the ebb and flow of history.
We are Tasmanian, these are our stories. This is Forgotten Tasmania.
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