Australian photographers – AlternativePhotography.com

Peter Kinchington

Peter Kinchington is a biologist and photographer whose work bridges science and visual art. His images – ranging from underwater to photomicrography – have supported major institutions and publications. Through advanced imaging techniques, he reveals the complexity of the natural world, combining scientific precision with an enduring fascination for nature’s detail. From: Melbourne, Australia Shows: Argyrotypes, Cyanotype, Lumens, Photogravures, Pinholes, Salt prints and Vandyke Browns. About Peter Kinchington (AAIPP, AIPPLM, BSc, Dip Ed, … Read more

Marie Lund

Marie Lund, an artist from Prague, specializes in photography, printing, and painting. Based in Australia, she has held thirteen solo exhibitions and is fascinated by old photographic processes like Photograms and Sun Prints. From: Maloneys Beach, NSW, Australia Shows: Lumen prints / Silver gelatin photograms Marie Lund, an artist who practices within the mediums of photography, printing and painting, was born in Prague. She has a long and involved relationship … Read more

Trevor Lund

Trevor Lund trained as a physicist and engineer with a lifelong passion for photography. He enjoys the cyanotype process for its simplicity. Married to an artist, he deeply appreciates photography’s aesthetic possibilities. From: Maloneys Beach, NSW, Australia Shows: Cyanotypes and Salt prints Trevor Lund trained as a physicist and spent most of his career as an engineer, but has had an abiding interest in photography since his teens. Work in … Read more

Kerry Herschell

Kerry Herschell, a devoted photographer, recently fell in love with cyanotypes and explores them for unique storytelling. Inspired by global experiences, she aims to bridge cultures by capturing emotions in her work. From: Melbourne, Australia Shows: Cyanotypes Kerry Herschell is a devoted portrait photographer and videographer, a journey fuelled by an unwavering passion for capturing the essence of life through visual storytelling. Her adventure in the realm of visual arts … Read more

Perdita Phillips

Perdita Phillips from Australia focuses on environmental issues and works with aspects such as sound and video in her installations. From: Walyalup/Fremantle, Australia. Shows: Cyanotypes. Dr Perdita Phillips is an artist living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja focusing on environmental issues and social change since 1991. Often conceptually driven, she has an expansive practice working in installation, environmental projects, walking, sound, video, sculpture and publishing. She has been making cyanotypes and … Read more

Lesley Duxbury

Lesley Duxbury from Australia photographs the landscape around her in cyanotype and sometimes tones her work using Eucalyptus. From: Briagolong, Victoria, Australia Shows: Cyanotypes, Polymer plate photogravures, Photograms. Lesley Duxbury is an Australian artist based in Gippsland. Her work includes printmaking and photography, especially polymer plate photogravure and cyanotypes. She has also dabbled in photograms. Her interests are in the atmospherics of landscapes and perceptions of place. She has undertaken … Read more

Leanne McPhee

From: Australia.
Shows: Chrysotype, Fuji Transfers, Salt Prints.
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Danielle Edwards

Danielle Edwards, from Melbourne, Australia, has extensive experience in medical photography. Inspired by nature she combines digital and analogue photography in her Platinotypes and other processes. From: Melbourne, Australia. Shows: Chrysotype, Lumen, Platinotype and Vandykes. For 29 years Danielle Edwards worked as a biomedical photographer in Melbourne, Australia. It required an approach of discipline and precision to produce medical photographs for documentation and standardisation. She recently retired from this industry … Read more

Vanessa Wiggins

Vanessa Wiggins is an Australian photographic artist working in carbons, gum bichromated and cyanotypes. Her work seeks to engage the viewer on several levels; to prompt or challenge social collective memory and to evoke the viewers’ internal dialogue of their experience. From: Vanessa works between Sydney and her studio in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia. Shows: Four colour carbon transfer, Gum bichromate, Cyanotype. Vanessa Wiggins’s visual imagery work draws on objects … Read more

Edward Richards

Edward Richards experiments with cyanotypes and salt prints and shows work from all over the world. From: Australia. Shows: Cyanotypes and Saltprints. Ted Richards is a semi-retired photographer living in Australia who took up alternate processes about a year ago just out of interest. So far he has experimented with salted paper and cyanotype prints, and intends to move into VanDyke shortly. Edward Richards has done them by making 5 … Read more

Lynette Zeeng

Lynette Zeeng has studied the limitations of these ‘alternative’ processes and how they may be modified to suit todays digital world, hence her wide spread of alternative photographic processes on display. From: Melbourne, Australia. Shows: Cyanotypes, Lumen prints, Mordancages, Oil prints, Polaroid Transfers and Tintypes. Lynette Zeeng’s creative practice is based on her investigation into historical photographic processes that create a singular unrepeatable handcrafted image. Her research included studying the … Read more

Dawne Fahey

From: Sydney, Australia
Shows: Chemigrams, Cyanotypes, Encaustic prints, Gum bichromates, Lumen prints and Mordancage.
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Ellie Young

From: Trentham East, Victoria, Australia.
Shows: Albumen prints, Ambrotypes, Carbon prints, Gum bichromates, Salt prints, Wet plate collodions.
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Gene Bagdonas

From: Gungahlin, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Shows: Cyanotypes, Vandyke browns, Gum bichromates, Gum over cyanotype, Cyanotype/Vandyke over inkjet, Platinotypes, Ziatypes, Photopolymer gravures, Polaroid image transfers, Albumen prints, Tintypes – modern, Ambrotypes, Salt prints.
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Chris Byrnes

Chris Byrnes is an Australian photographer after spending 9 years taking a BA. She loves printmaking and shows her cyanotypes, pinholes and vandykes.
From: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Shows: Cyanotypes, Pinholes, Vandykes

Wendy Currie

From: Melbourne, Australia.
Shows: Bromoils, Cyanotypes over gum, Cyanotypes, Pinholes, Vandykes over gum, Vandykes, Vandyke pinholes.
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