It was the third commercial photographic gallery in 1970s Melbourne to open after Brummels (1972) and The Photographers Gallery (1973)[6][7][8] and showcased International 19th and 20th Century photography[9] including Berenice Abbott, Eugène Atget, Julia Margaret Cameron,[10] Henri Cartier-Bresson,[11] Imogen Cunningham, Elllott Erwitt, Robert Frank, Hill and Adamson,[10] André Kertész,[12] Les Krims, Martin Lacis,[13] James Newberry,[13] Arnold Newman, Bill Owens, Jan Saudek,[14] W. Eugene Smith, Frederick Sommer,[13] Alfred Stieglitz,[15] Paul Strand,[13] Jerry Uelsmann, Brett Weston, and Minor White.
[16][19] The gallery also housed a bookshop[20] that stocked a range of local and international books on photography and the latest specialist photographic periodicals and supplied Melbourne's schools, colleges and tertiary institutions.
[citation needed] Evans continued acting as a specialist adviser on photography for a number of public institutions and prominent private collectors in Australia.
[26] The photo-book Only One Kilometre was made by Evans in the small Balcombe Estuary Reserve at Mt Martha on the Mornington Peninsula, the photographs presented with poetry and literary contributions from Graeme Kinross-Smith, Pat Raison and Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
[27] She also photographed in the Dandenong Ranges; along the Hume Hwy; in the Central Desert and outback Australia, most notably Oodnadatta, Oodlawirra, Menindee, and Lake Mungo; vineyards and rural villages in the South of France; and the old Jewish cemetery in the centre of Prague.
They form a diverse cross-section of Australian society from anonymous sitters to intelligentsia and personalities,[29] among them Marianne Baillieu; Barbara Blackman; Baron Avid von Blumenthal; Tim Burstall; Dur-e Dara; Robert Dessaix; Germaine Greer; Elena Kats-Chernin; Joan Kerr; Ellen Koshland; David Malouf; Dame Elisabeth Murdoch; Lin Onus; Jill Reichstein; and Chris Wallace-Crabbe.