Chip Elliott is a photographer, painter and educator originally from California. He has been photographing since he was 15 years old when he attended a vocational photography program during high school in Colorado. He has taught film and darkroom classes in NYC, Portland and San Francisco and taught youth photography programs in developing countries including Nepal and East Timor. He has been working in photography and the darkroom for over 35 years.  These photographs are from a project he is working on documenting the Yarra River that runs through the middle of Melbourne, Australia.  The images were shot on medium format black and white film and printed on silver gelatine fiber based paper.