My lifelong engagement in the arts, music, opera, design and photography began in the late 1960s with formal training in graphic design, signcrafts and typography.
Across the 1970s and 80s I photographed remote expeditions to the Arctic, Himalaya, Kimberley, and other wilderness regions, and produced an internationally released TV documentary film of Australia's first Arctic expedition (which I personally led) screened by Discovery, CBC, BBC, ABC and across Europe,
Through the 1990s, I founded and grew a highly successful design-based landscape, engineering and marketing startup in the UK with $26 million in sales.
As a practising artist in the early 2000's, my major exhibition in Sydney, launched by the Danish Consul General, explored in abstract form the 11 short compositions of Mussorgsky's disturbing work, universally known as Night on a Bald Mountain, which drew from the book "Dark Night of the Soul' by Saint John of the Cross.
During Covid, which changed everyone's lives, the extreme sunsets of South Australia's Golphe Josephine drew me back into professional photography full time. So I'm back to the beginning where I know nothing and have everything to learn.
PORTRAITS
A professional portrait is your most valuable personal branding asset. As a discerning leader or professional you need to be recognised for your individulality. Only an insightful and intuitive photographer can enable your real self to stand out.
I help you discover your autherntic inner self and allow your soul to speak. People prefer to do business with real people they feel they can trust. It starts with your portrait revealing the person who can be trusted.
I strive to capture the essence of personal meaning and higher purpose.
My studio uses no AI or digital dehumanising. Your reality is perfect.
My portraits use mostly natural and studio light, and relaxed poses. I can offer you traditional film portraits, as well as digital.
Art can be showcased in light, in form and in the structure all around us.
The delicate petal of a rare flower, the sparkle of light on an eyelash, a quarry full of broken rock, a momentary reflection in a puddle: everything is art.
My lens, wherever it points, sees the unexpected, the beautiful, the ephemeral or a consolidation of all of the unexpected. It sees erosion, accumulation, and conglomeration, the endless vista and the disguised vault. It stares into shadows, is blinded by the light, and enraptured by the contorting of rolling clouds.
Below, I offer just a few of my art images, collected recently.
Launching soon.. Limited edition selected images will be available as Fine Art Giclée prints, Offered in three sizes,printed on museum grade cotton rag. Contact me for details: e (at) deblonville.com
LIGHT
Light, in its many manifestations, surprises, entices, seduces, mystifies. Light is always true to itself. These iImages are real, unfiltered, and naturally occurring.
Australia is the world's largest island, surrounded and controlled by four major Ocean basins. The Ocean's moods govern our entire climate, and all life.
The built world intrigues me, and the mastery of architects seems to be a heavenly gift that I love to capture..
I accept commissions to photograph all forms of the built environment, from major exteriors and detailed interiors, and from existing buildings to commercial and residential real estate developments and sales.
Commissions: Contact me: < e (at) deblonville.com >
My current project is titled 'Between Heaven and Earth'. I explore the disproportionate relationship between physical size and global impact. And, in particular, how tiny humans can wreak such potentially world-ending havoc on earth which at essence is a profound imbalance that has never been adequately explained. I examine this tension visually to explore its fundamental improbability.