Biography

  

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Ian's love of light and his passionate approach to what light does to the landscape are evident in his photographs. For over 50 years, Ian has honed and developed his unique approach to the Landscape and continues to be a devotee to the amazing beauty that’s found in the great outdoors. With Ian, Natural Light is everything. 

Ian has travelled extensively throughout the world where he has built up an extensive photo library used in travel brochure work, photo stock libraries such as Getty, where thousands of Ian's images are sold annually. His images have also been used in countless books, photography magazines, travel brochures and many commercial websites. Ian’s photography, has been purchased by fine institutions such as the National Library of Australia, The British Museum, The BBC, The National Park service, The ABC, SBS, Qantas, Australia Post, Microsoft, The Victorian Government, Flight Centre, Lonely Planet and Time magazine.   

Ian’s Photographs have won numerous Gold, Silver and Bronze medals and received over 3500 acceptances at Photographic Exhibitions both here in Australia and at International Level.  Ian is a Grand Master of the Australian Photographic Society, has the distinction Artiste from the International Society of Photographic art, Is a Fellow of the Australian Photographic Judges Association and has also been awarded a medal for special services to the Victorian Association of Photographic societies and the Australian Photographic Society.