Ikon Studio
![Black and white street photograph of three women linking arms standing in the street.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/5e10dcd4987b4898be5407869456a111.jpg)
Family photo reunion
Imagine visiting an exhibition and discovering a photograph of yourself and your family that you had never seen before
![Black and white photograph of two adults and three children walking in a line holding hands in urban setting. This view is up Martin Place toward Macquarie Street, Sydney.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/2c37efabb57349c5ba0fe80111dc3ab0.jpg)
Ikon Studio
During the public call out for our Street Photography exhibition an extraordinarily rare collection of street photography negatives came to light. The Ikon Studio negatives provide a fascinating visual narrative of the street photographer at work
![Ikon Studio archive finding aid](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/5f39d929ce874dcb8d356811247fb421.jpg)
Ikon Studio Archive
The Ikon Studio archive of candid street photography is a documentation of everyday life on one busy Sydney city street recorded over several days in 1950
![Candid street photograph of pedestrians taken in Martin Place, Sydney, by an unknown Ikon Studio photographer during 1950.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/11/423971f9dbe048f5990cf11298978eae.jpg)
Ikon Studio: photo galleries
Browse a selection of images from the Ikon Studio collection shot between May and December 1950 in Martin Place, Sydney
![Black and white street photograph of pedestrians](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/03/f455c1d9cdba45a480fa230011f7e9ed.jpg)
Snapped! The Ikon Studio street photographer at work
A remarkable acquisition of 5000 street snaps provides a lively and revealing record of one Sydney street in 1950 and offers a rare glimpse through the street photographer’s lens
![Candid street photograph of pedestrians taken in Martin Place, Sydney, by an unknown Ikon Studio photographer during 1950.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/b217d64f80674c3995b9eecbde21f663.jpg)
Vali Myers: teenage Ikon in street photograph
Two young women stride confidently, hand in hand, up Sydney’s Martin Place on a sunny winter’s day in 1950