About - john GITSHAM

John started taking photographs with a 620 Kodak Box Brownie in 1969 at the age of 12yo. He was obsessed with photography, studying photography at High School, he went on to the Art School of SA under Ed Douglas, Fiona Hall and Bill Nieve, great photographers and artist in their own right. John worked professionally as a photographer until 1990.

He was a founding member of the Developed Image Photography Gallery and SA Photographic Workshop Group based in Adelaide, South Australia in early 1982. He exhibited his images in Adelaide, Sydney and Paris, during this time a significant sale of 12 large B&W photos from an 1984 Festival of Arts exhibition to the SA Law Courts.

John stopped doing Photography during the 90’s only returning in the early 2000’s taking up Digital photography using various DX format cameras, settling on Nikon and recently falling in love with a Fujifilm X100T & X-Pro3 digital viewfinder cameras (he always used Nikon, Leica and Hassleblad film cameras in the 80’s).

Johns love of nature took him back to University in the late 90’s and he studied Conservation Biology at Flinders University and has worked since in the Conservation industry and has been obsessed with Bird Photography and recently returning to Art Photography (Landscape and abstract/surreal images) and Urban and Street Photography. John has recently started working with B&W film format again using 4x5 Linhof and Chamonix large format field cameras and 120 medium format Hassleblad 500cm’s.

Four of Johns photographs are for sale through TRiCERA on-Line gallery https://www.tricera.net/artists/photographers?country=AU

You can find more of Johns current Art Photography on Instagram - Instagram.com/johngitsham

If you like Johns work and are interested in purchasing a print, please contact John via E-mail john.gitsham@bigpond.com