A photographic exhibition about Altona’s Toyota plant will be hosted by the Altona Laverton Historical Society to coincide with this year’s Australia Day events.
Organiser Owen Hyde says the exhibition, Toyota Altona 2015, will be displayed throughout the Altona Homestead Museum.
“The exhibition is a display of photographs of the Altona plant and will highlight the historic and social context of Toyota’s presence in the community of Altona,” Mr Hyde said.
Toyota will shut its Altona plant next year in a move expected to cost 2600 jobs.
The closure will mark the end of an era for car manufacturing in Australia as Toyota joins Holden and Ford in shutting up shop. Since 1963, Toyota has built more than 3.2 million cars at Altona, its Australian headquarters.
The exhibition will feature the work of three photographers commissioned by Toyota to capture the plant’s people and processes.
Award-winning photographers Jane Brown, Jean-Marc La-Roque and Dave Tacon spent more than three weeks taking black and white and colour photos at the factory.
“After spending many days inside the Altona plant, I could sense a great deal of pride and passion among the employees,” La-Roque said.
The exhibition, at Logan Reserve on the corner of Queen and Pier streets, opens on January 23 and ends on Australia Day.
