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bio ROBERT EDWARD KERSEY Born Sydney Australia 1939 SUBJECTS Wide variety of Australian landscape in particular outback, arid regions. Work also includes portraiture, still life and records of travel. In excess of 200 separate images are held in collections in Australia, UK, USA & Europe. GALLERY REPRESENTATION Meyer Gallery, Sydney Australia, Point Light Gallery, Sydney Australia, Gold Street Gallery, East Trentham Victoria. Also exhibited at Photo LA 2008 FORMATS Works in 35mm, medium format, 4x5, 8x10, 12x20 PRINTS ON Gelatin silver FB, Azo, P.O.P., Platinum Palladium, Ziatype. Platinum/palladium and zia are contact printed from camera original onto cotton rag and Japanese hand made gampi. EDITIONS All photographs are individually handmade by the artist and contain natural and intended variables. As distinct from a machine made print, it is considered both unnecessary and confusing to artificially suppress the output. Therefore editions are not closed off and the numbering of the photograph is in total accord with what took place during the printing session. #10 2/3 signifies that in the session of 2010, three photographs were considered to be of exhibition standard of which this is number two. TEACHING Founded Black Mountain Photographic Workshops, Oberon NSW in 2002. Curriculum includes Large Format, Landscape, Silver printing, Platinum/palladium printing, Ziatype negative preparation and printing. Private mentoring for exhibitions and special assignments. Teaches Ziatype process at Gold Street Studios, East Trentham Victoria. DEFINING MOMENTS “As a young boy I realised that there was more to photography than a box Brownie. Frankly, the box Brownie experience is more likely to have produced a musician. Whilst on a family picnic I watched enthralled as my father’s friend set up a folding camera on some sort of support, framing a majestic headland with white surf rolling in. He then proceeded to place a round disc of yellow glass in front of the lens. I could hardly wait to see the resultant photograph with al the waves turned yellow. The waves did not turn yellow. They shone with detailed whiteness and crispness beyond my imagining. In Australia in the fifties we had experienced nothing like, nor have we since, the Family of Man exhibition. This experience was like going to sleep staring at the moon and waking up next morning landing on it. The yellow filter taught me what photography can do. The Family of Man taught me what photography is.” UNKNOWING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS David Moore. Wolfgang Seivers. Gordon Undy. George Tice. Paul Caponigro. Dianne Arbus. Dorothea Lange. Edward Weston. Ansel Adams. Paul Strand. Frederick Evans. STATEMENT Art cannot be described. Art describes. PREVIOUS IN BRIEF Studied music from an early age, eventually moving into jazz – the photography equivalent. Theatrical studies at Ensemble Theatre with Hayes Gordon. Lectured at NIDA to graduating students. Thirty years with own film production company, Urban Bioscope then Kersey Films, as director and cinematographer. In 1974 created a world first in the pioneering of motion picture film direct to video tape master compile. The system also featured the minimum number of generations from camera original to on air: 35mm camera original direct via flying spot scanner to two inch video submaster/to integrated two inch master/to on air dub. THE FUTURE A new project of large format platinum palladium photographs of small groups of people in a related activity, in natural surroundings. |