Nigel Richardson is a photographer who lives in Taroona, near Hobart, Tasmania. His interests and work have taken him to most parts of the Tasmanian landscape and coastline, sometimes by boat and aircraft, but mostly on foot. He has also travelled and walked in Europe, North America, central and northern Australia, Kashmir and Nepal. More recently he completed a trip to Patagonia, north-western Argentina and northern Chile.
He has relished the freedom and flexibility brought about by the advent of digital photography. Prior to that, slow speed, fine-grained transparency film was his medium of choice as he sought to balance family and work commitments with his trips into some of Tasmania’s beautiful wild and rural landscapes.
Nigel’s development as a photographer has been influenced by a number of local and overseas artists. Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, motivated by their desire to protect Tasmania’s very special places, have been particularly influential in their exquisite portrayal of the Tasmanian wilderness. The American adventure photographer Galen Rowell understood the ability of light to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary well before the age of digital cameras and photo editing programs. His willingness to share his experience and acquired knowledge through his books has been a lasting inspiration.
Many of Nigel’s images have been published in The Abels, a celebration of Tasmania’s highest mountains and how to climb them. Nigel is also
the image curator for these books. He has won the Launceston Walking Club’s George Perrin photographic competition and has had his work exhibited at the Wilderness Gallery, Cradle Mountain.
Nigel’s camera now accompanies him everywhere as he seeks to document and interpret the sometimes ethereal but mostly ephemeral light that the ever changing weather casts upon the Tasmanian landscape, hoping to share with others his passion for our unique environment.
" When you go out there you don't get away from it all, you get back to it all. You come home to what's important. You come home to yourself " - Peter Dombrovskis (1945 – 1996).