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The Artists - Jason Kimberley |
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Jason Kimberley |
Jason Kimberley is a self-taught photographer with a passion for travel, adventure and capturing all that is wonderful and unique about Australian landscapes and life, particularly life in the bush. His self-published book, Australia Exposed (2003), was the result of a yearlong 4WD trip around Australia in 2000 with his wife Caroline. All the photographs were taken with his beloved 25 year-old SLR 35mm camera that has been on loan from his mother since 1982.
Prior to this Jason had a successful career in the retail industry working in sales, product design and manufacturing. He has worked in management for Country Road and most recently, the Just Jeans Group. He also ventured into the highly competitive Melbourne restaurant scene with Veludo, which quickly became one of the city's top-rated eateries.
Jason's love of travel was formed at an early age, after his family embarked on their first outback adventure. Since then he has traveled extensively throughout Australia and subjected himself to a number of demanding challenges including: climbing South America's highest peak Mt. Aconcagua (23,000ft), trekking Denali and a month long kayaking odyssey on Prince William Sound - both in Alaska. Last winter Jason was commissioned to photograph aboard the yacht Epsilon’s Darwin to Broome leg of it’s circumnavigation of Australia, recreating the 1802 -1804 voyage of Matthew Flinders to assist in raising funds for Alzheimer’s research.
The summer of 2005/06 saw Jason spend 16 days in Antarctica at 80 degrees south with his traveling companions Jason Veale and Peter Hillary. They filled their time man-hauling sledges across the windswept Horseshoe Valley on the edge of the Ellsworth Mountains.
During this time in Antarctica, in the country known as Deep Field, temperatures ranged from -15 ºC to -45 ºC. The sun did not set. Lichen is unable to grow on rocks. My human companions were the only life form encountered, and the closest permanent habitation was the Scott Amundsen base at the South Pole.
This widely acclaimed series of photographs titled simply – Antarctica has been shown in Melbourne and Sydney. The book, Antarctica A Different Adventure is scheduled for release in August 2007. |
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