Rennie Ellis Photographer official website Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive Melbourne Australia

Rennie Ellis is an award winning photographer and writer with 17 books to his credit. His photographs have been widely exhibited in Australia and overseas and his work has been acquired by various collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Centre for Photography, France s Bibliotheque National, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Australian Embassy in Beijing, the CUB Malthouse Collection, the ACMP Australian Photographers Collection, the Port Phillip Contemporary Visual Arts Collection, the State Library of NSW, the Monash Gallery of Art and private collections in Australia, UK and USA. Ellis had received grants from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, won an Art Directors Club Award for Photojournalism and a United Nations Habitat Award for photography. He was the founder and director of Brummels Gallery of Photography, Australia s first photography gallery. Rennie Ellis saw his photographic excursions as a series of encounters with other people s lives. His photos can be as straight-forward and blatant as a head-butt or infused with enigmatic subtleties that draw on the nuance of gesture and the significance of ritual. Often his images ask more questions than they answer. Over 30 years his quest for recording the idiosyncrasies of human behaviour has taken him to locations all over the world. He was as much at home photographing Carnival in Rio de Janiero with all its extroverted sexuality as he was recording the backstage preparations of the celebrated Kirov Ballet. At other times, in pursuit of the illusive photo, he had been lost in the souks of Marrakech, rowed up the Ganges at dawn, embraced the dust and flies of cattle stations on the edge of the Simpson Desert and given his minders the slip in Shanghai. He had been welcomed to the White House and thrown out of the Moulin Rouge. It s been said that the urge to preserve is the basis of all art. When pushed to make a value...

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Simone Hanckel Photography - Adelaide, South Australia

Natural black and white portraiture of your pregnancy, baby, child and family. It has always been my intention to write. I ve always loved it, and many times over the years I ve gone to write something significant , but couldn t find the words. I knew I had stories to tell, characters to explore and lives to highlight, but it wasn t until I picked up a camera when my first son was born that I found my voice. Photography, and in particular, black and white photography, gives my thoughts and ideas an outlet. It expresses my interest in humanity in my own way, and hopefully inspires others to see life as I do for a moment. Black and white strips away artifice, pretention and the brilliance of colour to reveal the soul of the subject, and for that alone it makes the most powerful medium I know. I hope my journey with the camera conveys the story I intend, that life is precious and these moments are fleeting.

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PHOTO LIBRARY- INDIA, Morocco, Bali, Australia, Italy by ROBERT WATSON

PHOTO LIBRARY - Search for photos from around the world including India Italy Morocco and Australia by ROBERT WATSON. Black & White photo library for collectors media travel writers.

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Deja Vu - Black and White Photography

Fine Art Nude Photography, Landscape and Architecture Photography

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