Fiat Lux: 51 Photographs

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Fiat Lux: 51 Photographs
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Andrew Ross
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:64
Category/GenrePhotographs: collections
ISBN/Barcode 9780864735737
ClassificationsDewey:779
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Te Herenga Waka University Press
Imprint Victoria University Press
Publication Date 14 March 2008
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

Five writers have collaborated with Ross to choose ten photographs each on a particular theme - workshops, environmental portraits, domestic interiors, buildings demolished for the Wellington motorway extension, and the use of natural light - and have written short essays to accompany them.

Author Biography

Andrew Ross was born in 1966 in Masterton and educated there until 1985 when he came to Wellington and did a BA in history at Victoria University. He became interested in photography in the late 1980s and worked as a darkroom technician on and off at 'Level III' from 1990 to 1995. He started using large format equipment in 1996 and began the ongoing 'Wellington Views' series, a constantly growing photographic archive documenting the City and its environments. Andrew Ross's photographs have been published in Sport, the New Zealand Journal of Photography and other periodicals, and included in exhibitions in galleries including City Gallery Wellington, Wellington Museum City and Sea, McNamara Gallery Photography and Mahara Gallery. He regularly exhibits at Photospace gallery.