Charles Kerry

When Lamartiniere fled from creditors a few years later, Kerry took charge of the company, paying debts and turning around the business.

An innovative artist, Kerry used the still-experimental technique of magnesium flash powder to capture the interior of the Jenolan Caves.

To gain an aerial view of the arrival of the Great White Fleet he mounted a camera on a box kite.

In 1909 he was elected Founding President of the Kosciusko Alpine Club, which led to the opening up of the area for skiing and the naming of a run after him.

From 1913 he made a photographic tour of the Pacific, visiting Tonga, New Caledonia, Fiji, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Samoa.