DE BLONVILLE
Creative: Since 1974
Focus: Ephemeral light, Stygian darkness
Gear: Leica, Hasselblad, Nikon, Olympus, Mamiya
Format: Digital, Film and Transparency - 35mm, 120 roll
Experience: Arctic, Himalaya, Kimberley, Alps, Desert, Ocean
Outputs: Magazines, Books, Portraits, Audio Visual Presentations
Philosophy: "Shoot what is, as it is. Let it speak for itself."
Inspiration: "It's not what you look at, it's what you see" - Henry David Thoreau.
“Photography becomes more real than reality” - Alfred Stieglitz. “Photography is truth” - Jean-Luc Godard.
Focus: Ephemeral light, Stygian darkness
Gear: Leica, Hasselblad, Nikon, Olympus, Mamiya
Format: Digital, Film and Transparency - 35mm, 120 roll
Experience: Arctic, Himalaya, Kimberley, Alps, Desert, Ocean
Outputs: Magazines, Books, Portraits, Audio Visual Presentations
Philosophy: "Shoot what is, as it is. Let it speak for itself."
Inspiration: "It's not what you look at, it's what you see" - Henry David Thoreau.
“Photography becomes more real than reality” - Alfred Stieglitz. “Photography is truth” - Jean-Luc Godard.
JOURNEY
My first professional camera was a black-bodied Olympus OM1 MD with 50mm f1.4 lens. Its virtues were extolled by famed British portrait photographers Lord Lichfield and Lord Snowdon, and it was used by movie greats, rock stars and professional journalists. My OM1 and untold rolls of Ektachrome together recorded 15 expeditions - Arctic, desert, Himalayas - and never failed.
I shoot portraits on medium format film (1974 Mamiya RB67 Pro S), landscapes on 35mm transparency film (1973 Nikon FM2n) and commercial work on full frame digital (2008 Nikon D700). My daily 'carry' shoots 120 Portra and TriX film (1969 Mamiya C330 Pro S Twin Lens Reflex with 80mm and 135mm blue dot lenses).
Art projects in progress include a photo essay that explores hope for planetary restoration, photo essays of famous explorers, many of them old friends, and a portrait project honouring remote Australian aboriginal artists.
SEPIA PORTRAIT
PROOF OF LIFE
CURRENT
My major ongoing project, titled 'Between Heaven and Earth', explores the disproportionate relationship between physical size and global impact. And, in particular, how tiny humans can wreak such potentially world-ending havoc on earth - a profound imbalance that has never been adequately explained. I examine this tension visually to understand its fundamental improbability, and possibly discover a viable reframing.
BETWEEN HEAVEN & EARTH
CLOUD
