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David Roberts
David Roberts
A Way of Seeing
7 February to 2 March 2008
David Roberts makes photographs with a passion born out of a love for all things, including his chosen medium of expression, large- and ultra-large-format photography.
The medium is incomparable, facilitating exceptional clarity of vision and expression. David’s contemplative experience of the world, particularly from his years living with the Inuit in the Arctic and the Dene in remote far northern Canada, reveals itself in the quietness of his pictures - never more so than in the life size portrait of his Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama made in Melbourne last year.
Each of David’s photographs is made by direct contact between the original ‘in camera’ negative and the exquisite though now unobtainable silver-chloride paper (Kodak’s Azo). He works with cameras from 5x7 inches to 20x24 inches.