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Black Mountain, Study #1
by Bob Kersey
by Bob Kersey
Born Paddington Hospital. Lived in McMahons Point and attended
North Sydney Technical High School.
| 1960 | Lived in Cairns. Wrote short stories. Fixed trucks. |
| 1961 | Returned to Sydney. Freelance photographer. |
| 1962 | Made two short films. Joined Ensemble Theatre. |
| 1963 | Joined Supreme Films in the movie laboratory. |
| 1964 | Joined RTN Channel 8 in Lismore as cameraman and editor. |
| 1965 | ATN7 Sydney. Film editor. |
| 1966 | Cinesound Review. Chief film editor. Directed documentary. |
| 1967 | Ten Network. Produced and directed specials. |
| 1968 | ABC-TV. Film editor in drama department. |
| 1969 | Freelance director of commercials and documentaries. |
| 1970 | Formed Film Communication. Made commercials and industrial documentaries. |
| 1972 | Directed "Tasman 72" series of motor racing programmes for television. |
| 1973-78 | Formed Urban Bioscope, company specialising in commercials and documentaries. |
| 1983-89 | Formed Kersey Films, producing and directing television commercials. |
| 1989-91 | Joined Film Business as TV commercials director. |
| 1992- | Formed Daylight Productions, producing and directing television commercials. |
| In the span of thirty years producing and directing television commercials, one particular campaign lives on in my memory and in the memory of many of my contemporaries from the seventies. I was assigned a task which was to become a love - to interpret the city of Rome through my eyes. The client was Alitalia. And now, twenty years later, the 35mm Arriflex, the lights, the dolly and the crew have been swapped for an old Rollei with an uncoated lens, [and I am] revisiting locations on foot, loving the city as much, if not more. | |
| 1998 | First solo exhibition of black & white photographs, Rome Revisited, point light |
| 2000 | Portfolio of platinum/palladium photographs of a north Italian village, Prosecco |
| Regularly represented in group exhibitions at point light, including Trees (1999), The Australian Landscape (2000), The Sand Show and 5th Anniversary Exhibition (2001) and Beyond the Blue (2002). | |
| 2002- | Established Black Mountain Photographic Workshops, Black Mountain, via Oberon, NSW, with wife and partner Mary Kersey |