Throughout 2010, photographers Les Walkling, Tony Hewitt, Christian Fletcher, Peter Eastway, filmmaker Michael Fletcher, and writer William L. Fox toured the Pilbara, creating stories through images and words which consider the collision and interconnection of the land,
industry and cultures of the Pilbara.
Christian Fletcher
Photographer
Christian Fletcher's photography career spans around two decades. His passion for photography and for the Australian landscape and its inspirational visuals has cemented him as one of Australia's premier landscape photographers.
Christian's natural and urban/industrial landscapes of Western Australia won Gold and three Silver awards at the 2009 Australian Professional Photography Awards.
Larry Mitchell
Visual Artist
Larry Mitchell is a self-taught artist who grew up in Northampton, on the midwest coast of Australia. It is here he developed an interest in the coastal environment. 20 years on he is Western Australia’s most regarded large scale realist painters, capturing natural icons along the coast from Geraldton to the Kimberley. Mitchell’s aim “is not only to record, but to create a yearning for what might be lost”.
Larry Mitchell is a highly collectable artist. He has won many art awards and prizes, has exhibited internationally and has work in collections including Barings Bank (London), the Weld Club Collection, Rupert Murdoch’s collection and the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
In 2011 Larry completed a comprehensive body of work which captures the remarkable diversity of the expansive outback region known as the Pilbara. From climate-bleached coastal islands to rangy hills trailing through inland and desert country, this collection spans both epic vistas and intimate details.
Les Walkling
Photographer
Dr. Les Walkling is an artist, educator and consultant. He studied science and philosophy at Monash University before turning to fine art photography in 1975, receiving Australia Council Arts grants and exhibiting widely.
His work is in many public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and The National Gallery of Victoria.
www.leswalkling.com
Michael Fletcher
Videographer
Michael Fletcher is a West Australian videographer who specialises in landscape video. Michael's background in still photography allowed him to develop a strong eye for composition before developing his skills as a ‘one-man production team’ in capturing moving pictures, producing and editing video.
He has been in partnership with his brother, photographer Christian Fletcher, at Christian Fletcher Studios since 2001 establishing his film production in 2007 as an addition to the studios successful still photography medium.
www.vimeo.com/user655337
Peter Eastway
Photographer
Peter Eastway is a Grand Master of Photography who has practiced photography for 30 years.
His passion for landscapes has earned him several coveted photography titles including multiple awards for Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year and AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year.
www.petereastway.com
Tony Hewitt
Photographer
Tony Hewitt's photography career spans over 20 years during which he has been named a Grand Master of Photography.
He has collected several coveted awards for his work in illustrative, fine-art, landscape and portrait photography including the Western Australian EPSON Professional Photographer of the Year in 2004.
Tony has also co-authored nine books and is a skilled public and motivational speaker.
www.tonyhewitt.com
William L Fox
Writer
Writer and curator of 52 Weeks On:
A Pilbara Project Exhibition
William (Bill) L. Fox is Director of the Center for Art and Environment of the Nevada of Museum of Art; a writer whose work is a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms land into landscape. He has published poems, articles, reviews, and essays in more than seventy magazines, has had fifteen collections of poetry published in three countries, and has written eleven nonfiction books about the relationships among art, cognition, and landscape.
www.wlfox.net