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Johnny Carter has been teaching kids to swim at Sydney's Palm Beach for fifty eight years now....the plaque at the beach says fifty but its dated 2001 so the math is pretty easy. Two years ago I shot him in action (see my earlier post) and last week in Sydney I went back to see him again...its just a wonderful sight. His energy is amazing and he's still calling all the boys jimmy and all the girls maggie.
Johnny Carter's been training young swimmers at Sydney's Palm Beach for over fifty years. To see him work is to see another era in action. All the boys get called Jimmy and all the girls Maggie, no matter what their real names are. There is no political correctness here, but the kids seem to love it. These were shot in January 2008 at my friend Ruth's suggestion, since her son William was one of the kids in these pictures.
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