Rob Annesley
(Australia)
For the past 45 years, Rob has been involved in the creative arts working for many years as a classically trained musician playing professionally across Australia. Pursuing an interest in commerce Rob spent fifteen years working in sales and product management roles. Over the ensuing two decades Rob ran his own successful businesses before following a long held desire to work full time as a photographer.
In addition to his personal photographic client work and personal projects Rob works for the Australian Racing Drivers Club at Sydney Motorsport Park photographing their regular motorsport events held at their Sydney complex. His work also encompasses corporate and other sporting events, including major festivals. Rob has also created commercial image portfolios for some of Australia’s premier tourism providers. As a regular media accredited photographer, Rob has worked on many premier events including the 100th Anniversary Naval Fleet Review, Australian International Air Show’s, V8 SuperCars, World Time Attack Challenge (International), and Top Gear Festivals (Australia).
Over the past 10 years Rob’s passion for nature has seen him create strong visual imagery that can best be described as “life in motion”. Rob says about his passion….” if it moves, I want to photograph it.” This has led to his strong interest in wildlife photography. This obsession has taken Rob across the world photographing large game including Grizzly and Black bears, Moose, Elk and Bighorn sheep and trekking through North America’s vast forests photographing everything from Bald Eagles to Alligators. When not travelling overseas Rob regularly spends his spare time roaming through Australia’s Outback documenting the vast landscape and wildlife opportunities which has resulted in three books and a public gallery exhibition.
Rob has won awards at prominent Australian photographic competitions including the Australian Centre for Photography artists exhibition winning the 2019 Seven Wentworth Selborne prize for Best Image and was a Finalist at the prestigious Sydney Art & About Competition.
The Under World
“The UnderWorld” is an exposition of the tiny world we seldom see. I intend to capture a series of macro and closeup images of some of the nearly five million insect varieties found in the miniature universe of tiny flying and crawling insects, dragonflies, beetles, spiders, beetles and bugs. Because this subterranean world is largely invisible to most people I hope to produce dramatic visual images in order to provide a fascinating insight into this beautiful and incredibly diverse microcosm that unfortunately faces a disasterous environmental threat from excessive land clearing, pesticides and climate change. I am attempting to bring attention to the plight of our base pollinators for whom our very survival relies on and to alert people to the decline in the population of the worlds smallest beings. Small in stature however huge in importance to humanity.
The images I create will be finally presented in a book with photographs captured from within four of Australia’s eight major ecoregions, those covering the entire east coast of the continent. These ecoregions range from the alpine region of the High County in North-eastern Victoria in the south all the way up as far north as Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland. The distance that I propose to travel and photograph in, over the period from March to the end of July 2022, in order to acquire this diverse range of images, will be in excess of 10,000 kilometres.
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