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.

Charles Henry Kerry
Skiers from the 1900 Kiandra Snow Shoe Carnival by Charles Kerry