David Hume

Australian Visual Artist

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Exhibition – The World We Live In

This post is about my most recent exhibition – a series of six works inspired by the LIFE Magazine book The World We Live In. In 1954 the US Magazine LIFE brought out an ambitious series of twelve articles under

David September 5, 2013April 4, 2015 Art, Photography Read more

Exhibition – The ERA We Live In

I’ve had great fun these past months preparing work for a group show put on by the Eastern Regional Alliance (ERA – get it?) of Local Councils in Adelaide. It’s a travelling group exhibition that will visit seven council galleries

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Natural Light Food Photography – Then and Now

I’ve started having a look through my archived boxes of transparencies and putting some  on to a lightbox  to rephotograph with my DSLR. When I started doing food shots in the mid nineties I used a natural light, shallow depth of field,

David February 3, 2013 Photography Read more

Lessons Learned and Forgotten

I’ve been looking at old slides lately, thinking about the differences in taking photos 15 yrs ago compared with today, and I came upon this session from 1998. Shot with my Nikon FM2 and 35mm f2,8 lens on 100 ASA

David December 12, 2012December 27, 2020 Photography Read more

Single Light Food Photography

  I used to do quite a bit of food photography, almost all of it shot with natural light. This was because I was shooting for a magazine and I’d be doing shots in restaurants during the day. It was

David October 26, 2012December 27, 2020 Photography, Dave's Bar and Grill Read more
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Fleurieu, Perceptions of Place (2023)

A photographic exhibition for the SALA Festival of 2023

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I welcome feedback and like catching up with other visual artists, photographers and writers.

Cheers, David

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Document your work! I'm about to start a book base Document your work! I'm about to start a book based on work I did in Venice 1992-1995, and it's great to know that a Kodachrome of the finished work that I started on the bridge is in a little yellow box ready to be scanned. (And yes, I'd forgotten that I did this and was sad to think I'd lost all those early pieces, even though at the time I was glad because a cafe bought them.) #venice #35mm #kodachrome #hp5
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What’s Next for Team Dave?

2023 was mainly directed to working towards a solo show in August. This show formed part of the SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival and was held in Adelaide. It brought with it many wonderful things and made me very tired. I am now trying to recharge after three very challenging years. (Challenging, that is, by my standards.) I'm still working on a couple of series in 2024 though, and we'll see how that goes.

2021-22 saw the completion of a Masters Degree in Contemporary Art at UniSA. This was a return to full time study for the first time since 1984.

In 2024 I am developing idea for some new work, "The Sea Before Dawn." We'll see what happens I guess.

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