Overview
Rationale
The poorest people with the most expensive phones; the best cars on the worst roads; the smartest children in the most dilapidated schools
“The Boomer Legacy” is satirical exploration of the impacts of those born 1949—1964. With pictures.
Topics
What's new?
See my artcile Photography Now & Then
(2026), with extensive details about the cameras, films and techniques used for this project.
See also the Site Updates page for new Boomer Legacy material.
Sample Images
The project has grown to 633 images, with 484 820 page-views since January 2013.
Click a thumbnail below to view a sample image full-sized:
Recent Additions
The following are some of the latest additions to the project:
What is a “boomer” ?
“Baby Boomer” refers to someone born in the couple of decades following World War Two, when the sustained average total fertility rate was greater than 3.0 babies per woman.
See Notes for more detail and discussion.
Copyright — All Rights Reserved
Unless noted otherwise, everything on this site is and remains the sole copyright of its Australian author.
Although you are permitted to view this material online, no other use, reproduction or implied license is allowed without the author's prior written consent.
The internet may still be free, but intellectual property is not.
Aside from text for #5028, no AI was used for this project