Follow the light

It’s an old story. Man goes on overseas trip, buys a camera in duty free to document his travels and, having never taken a picture in his life, he reads the manual on the plane. It was 1985. A young Nick Ghionis just getting acquainted with his new Olympus OM-1 as he flew off overseas, couldn’t have imagined that nearly three decades hence he’d be one of Melbourne’s top wedding photographers… [Olympus]

Edward Burtynsky – The Anthropocene Project

‘We all believe that this is the important issue of our day. It’s actually a crisis. If you engage in the environmental rant, I think people turn off. But if you open up a place for discourse, for understanding – through photographs, through things that are open to a personal interpretation, hopefully that’s a more profound transformative experience.’ – Nicholas de Pencier