A new exhibition of intricate bird portraits by Joseph McGlennon has opened at the Michael Reid Gallery in Sydney. McGlennon who comes from a background in design and marketing returned to photography six years ago after a long hiatus.
"I wanted to get back into it, but in a way different to everyone else," McGlennon told the Sydney Morning Herald last year. He sketches his ideas before photographing the scenes with a Hasselblad medium format camera. Some images can take over a month to complete, from concept to photography to post production. "I'm not one of those photographers who walks around with a camera all the time," he says. "I make photographs, I don't take them."
McGlennon began work on the series, Florilegium in 2014. The first image in the series, Florilegium #1 was the winner of the 2015 William and Winifried Bowness Photography Prize and has since been acquired by the Monash Gallery of Art and Australian Parliament collections.
The works are inspired by Joseph Banks’ botanical drawings and present glimpses to rare and exotic places.
The exhibition is at Michael Reid Gallery, 44 Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, from 30 November to 17 December 2016.
More info: www.michaelreid.com.au
