John Gollings
John Gollings (born 1944 in Melbourne), is an Australian architectural photographer.[1] He is particularly known for his technique of architectural photography at night using partial artificial light over a period of time.[2]
Biography
John Gollings hold a master's degree in Architecture from RMIT University and an Honorary Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Architects.
John Gollings works in the Asia Pacific region as an architectural photographer, much of the work involving long term cultural projects especially in India, Cambodia, China, Libya and New Guinea. He specialises in the documentation of cities, old and new, a lot of it from the air. He has had a particular interest in the cyclic fires and floods which characterise the Australian landscape. These have been documented with aerial photography.
Books include two volumes of New Australia Style, T&H; City of Victory, Aperture; and Kashgar, Oasis city on the Silk Road, Francis Lincoln in addition to many catalogues and monographs on architecture. He has just finished photographing a guide book to all the major Khmer temples in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand for River Books in Bangkok and Thames and Hudson have released a monograph called "Beautiful Ugly" of his contemporary architectural work.
Work is held by the Asia Society, New York, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, the Monash Gallery of Art, the State Library of Queensland, The Janet Holmes A'Court collection, The Gold Coast Gallery and the National Library of Australia.
Recent exhibitions include the Australian Centre for Photography, Gold Coast Gallery, The Immigration Museum, Victoria, Monash Gallery of Art, McClelland Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia.
He has received a Visual Arts Board Grant from the Australia Council, twice been given the Presidents Award by the Australian Institute of Architecture and has received many advertising and graphic design awards from Australian, New York and Chicago Art Directors Clubs.
Gollings was the co-creative director emeritus, with Ivan Rijavek, of the Australian Pavilion at the 2010 edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture. This exhibition was called Now and When and compared the existing state of Australian cities, with their counterpoint in the mining holes of the west, to the possibility of a radical, new, paradigm city of the future. This was all photographed from a helicopter in 3D or rendered in 3D using his studio's CGI techniques. This project travelled Australia and Asia under the auspices of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade until 2013.
References
- ↑ "John Gollings". specifier.com.
- ↑ "Eye For Architecture on SBS ONE". 19 April 2013.