Paul Hamon in the backyard, Pooraka, 1977

Young boy with light brown hair smiling in a striped T-shirt in a garden, Pooraka, Adelaide, 1977. Digitally restored version. — Five-year-old Paul Hamon smiles in the backyard at Pooraka, Adelaide, in 1977. He wears a red, white, blue and green striped T-shirt and sits among garden plants with a corrugated fence behind him. His mother Desrae retained a large number of photographs from around this age. Photograph by Howard Hamon. The restored version has been cleaned, colour-corrected and upscaled with generative AI while preserving the original expression and lighting.

Young boy with light brown hair smiling in a striped T-shirt in a garden, Pooraka, Adelaide, 1977. Original print. — Five-year-old Paul Hamon smiles in the backyard at Pooraka, Adelaide, in 1977. He wears a red, white, blue and green striped T-shirt and sits among garden plants with a corrugated fence behind him. His mother Desrae retained a large number of photographs from around this age. Photograph by Howard Hamon. The restored version has been cleaned, colour-corrected and upscaled with generative AI while preserving the original expression and lighting.

Subjects: Paul Hamon
Event: Backyard portrait
Photographer: Howard Hamon
Restoration notes: Colour correction, cleaning and upscaling performed with generative AI. Composition, expression and lighting preserved from original.
Credit: Photograph by Howard Hamon. Author’s collection.
Keywords: Paul Hamon 1977, backyard, Pooraka Adelaide, age 5, Howard Hamon photographer, 1970s portrait