Upcoming presentation: Grant Ellmers April 2nd
Walking the streets: A journey through different viewfinders
New members and visitors are always welcome, for further information please contact Dulcie Dal Molin on 42744322.
Grant will share images both slide and digital, of his journey.
Grant graduated from the Canberra School of Art, ANU in 1987 majoring in photography. His graduating work focused on the exploration of form and colour in the streets of Sydney, and was influenced by the work of Edward Weston, Minor White and other modernist photographers of that era. Over the following 3 years Grant trained and worked in Sydney as an advertising photographer using Mamyia RB67s, 4X5 and 8X10 inch cameras. During that time he continued to walk the streets of Sydney with his twin lens Mamiya C330 in hand. In 1992 Grant traveled to the south of England and worked as photographer and advertising consultant and in 1993 Grant spent a year as a cruiseship photographer based out of Cyprus, sailing to Egypt and Israel. On his return to Australia, and in that transition time one can experience before fully integrating back into life in the subsequent country or culture, Grant went back exploring the streets of Sydney and Melbourne through a Hasselblad lens.
Currently Grant is a lecturer in Graphic Design in the School of Art and Design, Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. He is in the process of writing up his PhD. The study focuses on the use of reflection to scaffold the development of increased cognitive engagement by the design student. The work has the potential to support students in other fields of design and across the creative arts disciplines.
He wishes he had more time and mental energy to continue his photographic practice.
