H.J. King - An Adventurous Photographer
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Tomorrow I'll post a 9 minute film I have made that tells the story of Herbert John King and the role he played in photography in Tasmania, especially in the early years of the 20th century.
H.J. King was born in 1892 and took up a camera at age 14. Within a few years he was winning competitions at the Northern Tasmanian Camera Club (founded 1889), especially with this lantern slides of wilderness areas.
As a conscientious objector during WWI, King was charged with making a series of fund-raising lantern slide shows. All funds went to the Red Cross to support soldiers in the field. My short film will tell the whole story as succinctly as possible with period music.
This selection of H.J. King photographs from the exhibition is presented in the style of King's own lantern slides.
The show runs at the Inveresk Museum in Launceston until August 2023. It is called "H.J. King: Cameras and Carburettors".
The carburettors and my title "Adventurous Photographer" refers to the fact that King was a pioneer of motorcycling in Tasmania. As you'll see, some of his best photographs feature bikes. I should also add he was the first Tasmanian to begin an aerial photography business.
www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/Whats-on/Museum-at-Inveresk/HJ-King-...
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/king-herbert-john-10742
* All these photographs from the show were captured on my Nikon D850 with museum lighting.
Special thanks to the museum for allowing me to work with them for this series.
H.J. King - An Adventurous Photographer
[This must be enlarged.]
Tomorrow I'll post a 9 minute film I have made that tells the story of Herbert John King and the role he played in photography in Tasmania, especially in the early years of the 20th century.
H.J. King was born in 1892 and took up a camera at age 14. Within a few years he was winning competitions at the Northern Tasmanian Camera Club (founded 1889), especially with this lantern slides of wilderness areas.
As a conscientious objector during WWI, King was charged with making a series of fund-raising lantern slide shows. All funds went to the Red Cross to support soldiers in the field. My short film will tell the whole story as succinctly as possible with period music.
This selection of H.J. King photographs from the exhibition is presented in the style of King's own lantern slides.
The show runs at the Inveresk Museum in Launceston until August 2023. It is called "H.J. King: Cameras and Carburettors".
The carburettors and my title "Adventurous Photographer" refers to the fact that King was a pioneer of motorcycling in Tasmania. As you'll see, some of his best photographs feature bikes. I should also add he was the first Tasmanian to begin an aerial photography business.
www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/Whats-on/Museum-at-Inveresk/HJ-King-...
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/king-herbert-john-10742
* All these photographs from the show were captured on my Nikon D850 with museum lighting.
Special thanks to the museum for allowing me to work with them for this series.