Australia's first Indigenous press photographer Merv Bishop is the subject of a new book. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong/AAP PHOTOS

The photographs snapped by Mervyn Bishop over the years are likely countless.

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None though are perhaps so iconic as his 1975 image of Gough Whitlam pouring red sand into the hands of Gurindji stockman Vincent Lingiari as portions of his land were returned to his people.

Mr Bishop had been working for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs when he took the well-known frame, after having made his mark as Australia's first Indigenous press photographer when he

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