Olive Cotton was a ground-breaking modernist Australian photographer whose significant talent was recognised as equal to her first husband, Max Dupain.

In the mid-1940s Olive divorced Max, leaving Sydney to live with her second husband, Ross McInerney and raise their two children in a tent on a farm near Cowra.

The family later moved to a cottage that had no running water, electricity or telephone for many years.

Famously quiet, yet stubbornly determined, Olive continued her photography despite these challenges and the lack of a dark room.

Intriguing, moving and powerful, this is Olive's story.