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Thursday, 04 June 2009, 20:00 - 22:00 |
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A Passion for Photography
From David Ellis:
"My first experience with the Melbourne Camera Club was in the late 1950s when, as a teenager, I joined the Beginners Classes after visiting the Melbourne International Exhibition of Photography. Subsequently, I joined the Club, working my way up in Colour Slides from B Grade to A Grade. I became dissatisfied with the ephemeral nature of projected images and, with the help of several Club members, started to make black and white prints, eventually moving up to A grade. When Type C materials and processing technology became more consistent and less expensive, I switched to making colour prints. By now I had progressed from making prints in the bathroom to a purpose built darkroom in the backyard.
Along the way I served two terms as Club Secretary and one as President. I have had two "one-person" shows, one in this Club in 1990 and the other at the Alliance Française of images made in France. Some of my black and white prints have been collected by the NGV.
Since I started making prints I have supported my expensive hobby with part-time professional photography. In the early 1990s I started a full-time photographic business, photographing everything and anything. I am now retired and only do occasional commercial work, so that I am free to travel with my wife Lyn, and make pictures for myself.
Tonight's talk will feature an audio-visual produced for me by John Spring. It shows a selection of my work from about 1970 until now, together with an exhibition of some of my recent prints. After a discussion of the prints you will be invited to have a glass of wine and some savouries."
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