Leanne McPhee
Fine Art Photographer
About
Leanne McPhee is an award winning Australian fine art photographer known for her investigations into identity in living and still life forms. Her work explores how the character inherent in different forms can be altered or supported by interactions with people, objects and the built and natural environments.
Working with large format, analogue and toy cameras, Leanne prefers the qualities of film, particularly for contact printing. She has demonstrated expertise in a variety of historical photographic printing processes, especially chrysotype (gold) and salted paper printing, and maintains ongoing practice to extend her knowledge and skills into new (and many old) area of photographic art. This has included participating in the Salted Paper Symposium and Workshop at Harvard University courtesy of the Institute for Conservation (FAIC) and the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Professional Development Scholarship Award.
Leanne is a regular contributor to National and International symposia, hands-on workshops and has published both technical and creative works. She is the author of Chrysotype: A Contemporary Guide to Photographic Printing in Gold (Routledge/Focal Press) and an advisor to the Lishui International Handmade Photography Centre, Zhejiang, China.
Leanne’s work is held in both public and private collections in Australia, China, Italy and the United States of America. She holds a Diploma of Photo Imaging from the Centre for Creative Photography and a Master of Arts Degree from the Flinders University of South Australia.