John Gollings
In his own words: Along the way I was mentored by a clutch of remarkable photographers; Ezra Stoller, Ansel Adams, Wolfgang Sievers, Mark Strizic, David Moore and Max Dupain. Meanwhile I had discovered dead cities and started my own projects in New Guinea, India, Cambodia, Western China, Indonesia, Turkey and Libya. This urban documentation has become an obsession with return visits annually to various sites. None of it has had much exposure, as it’s been hard to find a publisher. In some ways I’m better known in India where whole museums have been built to house my work on the Vijayanagara Empire. With the growing realization that an old fashion photo has no immediate value I started to concentrate on architecture photography exclusively from the 80’s on. I’m extremely proud of an archive of significant buildings right across South East Asia; all of it digitized and stored on a massive server with millions of images.