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The amazing photograph of the Hinton Wharf collapse

IT was a photograph that should not have been possible, considering the cumbersome glass-plate camera Jack Little was using. Press photographer Jack Little was at the right place at the right time on August 14,1932. Not only that, the assignment the veteran Sydney and Newcastle Sun photographer had been sent to cover on August 14, 1932 was the epitome of boring. And yet, by pure chance, Little took a photo that day that remains a wonder of news photography. Little, who was working at the Newcastle Sun on secondment from the Sydney Sun, had been sent…

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