Photography
At 15 Caddy was entering the monthly Australian Photographic Review's photographic competitions and winning. In the senior division Max Dupain of Ashfield was 19 and coming third. Caddy's "sunbather" was taken in the same year as Dupain's iconic image with the difference that the image is a closeup of someone's feet standing on the subject's back.
A self-taught amateur, Caddy was well-known within camera club circles and like Dupain, his work was influenced heavily by the modernist style of the New York-based Popular Photography Magazine.
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