Fiona Bowring, Debi and Jess, Plastic Creations, Fyshwick (PEOPLE 2022)

These pictures of Debi and her daughter Jess are part of a series of portraits I’ve made of women at work in Fyshwick, Canberra’s industrial heart. Plastic Creations is a family business: mother and daughter specialise in the assembly, father and son in the fabrication. The affection between them is palpable. Like a pair of puppies, Debi and Jess gambol about each other, happily hamming it up for the camera, but serious when they tell me about their work and how much they value working in it together. It’s been a busy year couple of years in Perspex. Luckily there’s a carparked couch to flop on occasionally, and always someone who’ll prop you up when you do.

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