were used by artists and photographers, notably by German artist Herbert Zangs during his Australian visit in 1981). In 1975, when Australian photography was developing a higher profile and becoming collectible, Horsham Regional Art Gallery Director Jean Davidson made the decision that the gallery would specialise in the medium, and during the following years consulted on purchases with the National Gallery of Victoria’s Jennie Boddington and with Evans, who was then running Church Street Gallery. One of the works she later acquired was Evans’ The Ascent (1993). Over November and December 1981, Evans held a Final Retrospective of photographers who had shown in the gallery since 1977, then, despite the gallery being profiled in the European print letter, closed the Church Street premises in 1982, and relocated the gallery's collection and inventory to a private studio, from which she continued to operate. In 1978 she was appointed Approved Commonwealth Valuer for Australian and International photography from the 19th Century to the present day for the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program. Evans continued acting as a specialist adviser on photography for a number of public institutions and prominent private collectors in Australia. Photographer After closing the Church Street Gallery, Evans enrolled at Photography Studies College in 1982, then devoted her time to photography, undertaking portraiture, documentary and landscape. In the latter genre her work includes an extended photo essay on roadside verges where she found wildlife road kills and fatalities. Completed between 1988 and 1996, Evans made the shots with a Widelux F7 35mm panoramic camera held in a vertical orientation and she often rotated the camera about the axis of its swiveling lens to produce distortion. 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. 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. Evans's portrait photographs were taken mainly in black and white, at close range, and were usually environmental portraits that emphasised the psychological connexion between the sitter and his or her own space. They form a diverse cross-section of Australian society from