DAVID ELLINGSEN PHOTOGRAPHY

African Grey Parrot

Peacock Pheasant Feather, 2012

Photolife newsblog - Hibernus Exhibition at Akasha Art Projects in Toronto

A nice write-up about the show from Photolife Magazine’s newsblog.

Lenscratch published a feature today on the Hibernus and Sea/Life series…happily coinciding with the opening tonight at Akasha Art Projects.

Lenscratch is a blogzine that explores contemporary photography and offers opportunities for exposure and community. Considered one of the 10 Photography-Related blogs you should be reading by Source Review, Wired.com, and InStyle Magazine.

I’m proud to report that the photographs I did last summer for the Vancouver Whitecaps Women’s League contributed to the United Soccer League announcement that the ‘Caps have been honored with the 2011 Women’s League Marketing Award. Alright!

Please join me for HIBERNUS…a winter study.

EXHIBITION
January 5 – February 4th, 2012
akasha art projects
511 Church Street, Suite 200
Toronto

OPENING RECEPTION
January 7th
5 – 8pm
Artist in attendance.

PRESS FOR HIBERNUS
* Critic’s Pick – NOW Magazine, Upcoming Exhibitions, Toronto.
* Merit Award Winner – Black and White Magazine
* Current cover feature, Issue 19 – UYW Magazine, Australia.
* Honourable Mention – International Photography Awards (IPA)
* Honourable Mention – Prix de la Photographie (PX3)

GALLERY PRESS RELEASE
akasha art projects (sic) welcomes this New Year with an exclusive photographic exhibition by award winning Vancouver based photographer David Ellingsen. In this body of work, entitled ‘Hibernus’, Ellingsen utilizes botanical subject matter to explore personal notions of natural order, the cycle of life, as well as kinship with, and disassociation from, one’s environment.  Use of the now discontinued Polaroid 55PN film has allowed Ellingsen to capture pure, organic images that demonstrate broad tonal range.  Hand processed and archivally printed, these photographs emanate a richness that makes each one strikingly beautiful and uniquely authentic.

HIBERNUS ONLINE
See complete Hibernus series here.

The beautiful second anniversary issue of Australian on-line journal UYW was released today…an issue which focuses on artists using alternative methods in photography. This edition of Unless You Will was co-curated by founder Heidi Romano and Italy’s Fabio Severo and, along with my Hibernus series, includes wondrous work from Binh Danh (the chlorophyll printing process is breathtaking), Beth Dow and fellow Canadian Curtis Wehrfritz.

Check it out…

This shot installed in BC Place Stadium is from a while back but I’d never been down this ramp before…and didn’t realize just how big this work was.
Sweet.

Yesterday saw the announcement that I have been selected as one of the 6 photographers in the running for the Critical Mass 2011 Book Award for the Sea/Life series. I will pass you on to the official notification here…but needless to say I am very honored to be in the running.