Restored1888 × 2222 Source type: edited using generative AI
Original248 × 292 Source type: digitised from print
Four-year-old Paul Hamon, wearing a black-and-white striped T-shirt and red shorts, holds a colourful gift while Father Christmas sits behind him at a playgroup Christmas event in Pooraka, Adelaide, December 1976. A young girl in a blue floral dress stands with her back to the camera in the foreground; her identity is unknown. The setting is a playgroup room with a world map on the wall. Photograph by Howard Hamon, taken before Paul started at Pooraka Primary School. The restored version has been cleaned, colour-corrected and upscaled with generative AI. Note: an American flag appearing in the restored image is an artificial insertion by the AI process and does not appear in the original photograph.
- Subjects
- Paul Hamon; Father Christmas; unidentified girl
- Event
- Playgroup Christmas / Father Christmas visit
- Photographer
- Howard Hamon
- Restoration notes
- Colour correction, cleaning and upscaling with generative AI. An American flag visible in the restored version is an AI insertion and was not present in the original photograph taken in Adelaide.
- Credit
- Photograph by Howard Hamon. Author’s collection.
- Rights
- © Howard Hamon / Hamon family collection. All rights reserved.
- Keywords
- Paul Hamon 1976, Father Christmas, playgroup, Pooraka Adelaide, Christmas present, Howard Hamon photographer, December 1976, before school