About The Artist : Ken Duncan

Ken Duncan has been interested in photography since his early teens when he rendered himself temporarily unpopular by dismantling his father's Bellows camera to make a black and white enlarger. He entered the photographic world after leaving school and progressed to become a senior technical representative for Australia's leading photographic supply house. His turning point came when this company imported the 'Widelux' camera. On testing the camera's capabilities he realised he had found a vehicle which could translate onto film exactly what he could see in a landscape.

Taking photographs had become a passion, and in 1982 Ken left Sydney to realise his dream of producing a quality book of Australian images. Little did he know that the dream would cost him his house, cars and everything else he had - and take five years to complete.

During his travels around Australia, Ken has collected over 80,000 selected images in panoramic format. Unequalled in depth, the library has been hailed as the best collection of Australian landscapes ever seen. Ken sought out places not previously photographed in order to provide a feeling of the real Australia and our pioneer spirit which exists beyond the coastal fringes.

In the course of his journey, Ken endured many hardships in order to realise his dream, including taking a fall from Kata Tjuta in the Northern Territory which resulted in damage to his left big toe causing gangrene and the eventual amputation of that toe. The freezing damp of western Tasmania brought about hypothermia causing severe damage to his nervous system from which Ken took many months to recover.

In a feature article on Ken and his work, Australian Professional Photography magazine described him as: "The photographer who is now undoubtedly Australia's (and possibly the world's) leading exponent of panoramic landscape photography (certainly the most successful) ..." But in his own words, Ken is simply “an average photographer with a great God”.

As a photographer, Ken sees himself as an interpreter of God's creation. The art is in seeing, capturing and presenting these images to others. 

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