IAN ROLFE
Given his first camera at the age of eight Ian began taking black and white photos of family and friends and of the regular annual holidays. A love of landscapes developed and flourished during a school camping safari to outback Queensland while attending secondary college. Since that time he has had a variety of camera equipment and currently uses a variety of Nikon gear alongside a Hasselblad Panorama Xpan. Ian shoots slide film exclusively for his Panorama Landscape work, his current favourite Fuji Velvia. Not entirely convinced that digital is the answer yet, Ian continues to work with film because of its earthly inherent qualities, and then scans and processes digitally from his original emulsions. For general family Photography, for all Photographic applications in his Gallery, and when travelling, Ian will also use a Nikon Digital camera to complement his Panorama film Camera.
Ian has travelled extensively in Australia, South East Asia, The South Pacific Islands, Australia's offshore Islands, Including Norfolk and Lord Howe Island and the Islands in Bass Strait.
He has also made numerous trips over to England and North America, where he has built up an extensive photo library used in travel brochure work and his photographic writing. Tasmania is Ian’s all time favourite place and to date has made over thirty-five trips across Bass Strait to photograph this magnificent Island state.
Ian is a well known travel and landscape photographer whose column started to appear in the Photomaster magazine over ten years ago. Since then his work has been published in numerous books, Photography magazines and travel brochures and currently has a column in both the Total image and Inspirations magazines.
A member of the APS since 1996 and also a member of the Southern Suburbs Camera club in Melbourne, he actively promotes involvement at some level in clubs or organizations to improve ones picture taking abilities, something that clearly shows when you read his published work. Ian is a Fellow of the Australian Photographic Society and has also been awarded the title "Artiste" from the Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique.
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