John Gollings
I’m thrilled to have the master Australian photographer John Gollings on the show. Part of the inspiration for The Photorian was to talk with the most important and respected photographers and John has been a mentor and inspiration for my entire career.
John’s global reputation as one of the most outstanding photographers Australia has ever produced and his lifelong love of photography, combined with his ability to find inspiration in both his personal and commissioned works.
John Gollings made his first photographs and received darkroom tuition at age eleven; he later studied Arts/Architecture at Melbourne University, supporting himself through architectural and wedding photography.
In 1967 he received private tuition from Ansel Adams in his darkroom at Carmel, California. He has taught the use of large format cameras, and lectured on architecture and advertising photography at Prahran College, Melbourne and Sydney universities and the Philip Institute, amongst others. Recently he has focused on longer-term projects including books, exhibitions and fine prints.
John Gollings specializes in the documentation of cities, old and new, a lot of it from the air. He has had a particular interest in the cyclic fires and floods, which characterize the Australian landscape. These have been documented with aerial photography.