THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT: JOHN STREET
5th Annual Spotlight on Academics
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24m
00:24:30|Australia|Directed by Fiona Cochrane
Born in the UK John spent the first 15 years of his life in and out of different orphanages. He remembers light being an important thing to him as he lay in fields as a child, looking up at the sky. John subsequently became a merchant seaman, then returned to London in the swinging 60s and became a commercial photographer. He migrated to Australia and continued this work, being acclaimed as a very exacting food photographer. At a later stage John swapped to an ultra large format camera to compose unique, one-off art photographs, which he describes as ‘slow photography’. At the age of 90 he has now sold his large camera but continues to make photographs that are more of a combination of art and photography – ‘painting with light’.
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