The collection is about the negative effects on Aboriginal Australians who lived through the mining of uranium and the British nuclear testing in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In 2019, John Mandelberg released a documentary film inspired by the photographic collection, called Totem & Ore. Mining of uranium took place in northern Australia in the 1960s.

B Wongar took around 5,000 photographs relating to the mining of uranium and the subsequent British nuclear testing, showing how these events affected Aboriginal Australians who lived in the area.

[1] During debate in Australian Parliament on the second report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, an exhibition of this photographic collection, named Boomerang and Atom, at the Parliamentary Library of Australia in Canberra, was opened in September 1974.

[6][7] In 2019, Waikato Institute of Technology academic and filmmaker John Mandelberg released a documentary film, Totem & Ore, inspired by Wongar's book.