DEBLONVILLE
PHOTOGRAPHY
Earle de Blonville
If a photograph does not ask a question, it cannot engage the viewer and thus has little to offer.
Art and design have been central to my life for more than 55 years. I was trained in signcrafts, typography and graphic design, and have worked in industrial and product design, corporate branding, marketing campaigns and web design in the UK and Australia.
As a photographer, I covered remote expeditions, from the 1970s to the 1990s, to the Arctic, Himalaya, Kimberley, and other wilderness regions, and produced an an internationally released
TV documentary film of Australia's first Arctic expedition, screened by Discovery, CBC, BBC, ABC and across Europe.
My colour sensibility is shaped by Saul Leiter, Tom Blachford and the American modernist movement. For architectural and compositional inspiration I count on Hélène Binet and Fan Ho. For insights into human behaviour I follow Edward Steichen and Elliot Erwitt. For portraiture, I value the work of Snowdon, Jane Bown and Edward Curtis. For me, colour is life and photography is art.
And to reveal the soul of a subject, there is no greater humanising medium than sepia.
I shoot in digital full frame, plus traditional 35mm and medium format film, using modern Nikon DSLR cameras and historic Nikon F2 and Mamiya 67 equipment from the early 1970s.
Art and design have been central to my life for more than 55 years. I was trained in signcrafts, typography and graphic design, and have worked in industrial and product design, corporate branding, marketing campaigns and web design in the UK and Australia.
As a photographer, I covered remote expeditions, from the 1970s to the 1990s, to the Arctic, Himalaya, Kimberley, and other wilderness regions, and produced an an internationally released
TV documentary film of Australia's first Arctic expedition, screened by Discovery, CBC, BBC, ABC and across Europe.
My colour sensibility is shaped by Saul Leiter, Tom Blachford and the American modernist movement. For architectural and compositional inspiration I count on Hélène Binet and Fan Ho. For insights into human behaviour I follow Edward Steichen and Elliot Erwitt. For portraiture, I value the work of Snowdon, Jane Bown and Edward Curtis. For me, colour is life and photography is art.
And to reveal the soul of a subject, there is no greater humanising medium than sepia.
I shoot in digital full frame, plus traditional 35mm and medium format film, using modern Nikon DSLR cameras and historic Nikon F2 and Mamiya 67 equipment from the early 1970s.
Artist's Statement
"I don’t present photographs: I present art I have created that speaks to our instinctive primeval responses to the world of natural forces that shape and control us.
By exposing the power within the scene to make it visible, devoid of the blinding light it emits to conceal itself, I enable inherent darkness to define a new light.”
- DEBLONVILLE
By exposing the power within the scene to make it visible, devoid of the blinding light it emits to conceal itself, I enable inherent darkness to define a new light.”
- DEBLONVILLE
MAGIC
BUILT
CULINARY
FURY
PORTRAITS - SEPIA
EROSION
SHADOWS
TEMPEST
PEACE
TIME & TIDE
FLORAL
BAR
ARCTIC
SUNSET
Golphe Josephine, South Australia, discovered by Nicolas Baudin, 1802
PROJECT
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.
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.
B H & E
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH
GLIMPSES
INTERIOR DESIGNERS
Some images can be purchased as high quality collectible works.
Hand crafted Fine Art Giclée prints on museum grade cotton rag.
Offered in three sizes, sent direct in rolls ready to frame.
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