Former Sydney Morning Herald photographer George Lipman, whose image of two boys walking hand in hand captured the country’s optimism ahead of the 1967 Indigenous rights referendum, has died at the age of 91.

The Walkley Award winner’s photo of Indigenous boy Victor Hookey walking with his white friend Mark Anthony on a Chippendale lane ran on the front page of the Herald two days before the referendum vote under the headline: “Racial discrimination – what’s that?”

More than 90 per cent of voters endorsed changing the Constitution at the referendum so Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people would be counted as part of the population.

Lipman’s photo – just one of his insightful images of city life over almost three decades – was hung in exhibitions and featured on posters before

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