Ron Langman

After half a lifetime in board rooms and venture capital I have returned to my first love photography.

In the sixties and seventies, I ran Adelaide’s largest advertising photography studio and Cibachrome laboratory.

When I returned to photography, film had gone, and digital photography had arrived. Image quality was low but improving rapidly. It was time for re-education. Today digital imaging surpasses the best of what we could produce from film.

I was now my own client. No deadlines, no art directors, and many fewer technical difficulties. I could indulge myself in capturing landscape images that gave me pleasure and personal satisfaction.  Not the landscapes you see on calendars or jigsaw puzzles but ones that elicited a viewer response at a more visceral level.

No longer constrained by the need to make an ‘accurate’ record of what was before the camera I was free to manipulate my images to reflect my emotional response to the subject at the time of capture.

The results are sometimes criticised for being ‘over processed’ and I respect that this may be the honest opinion of others but am unlikely to change.

My ambition is to create seductive and intriguing images from unremarkable subjects. 

Like so many aspiring landscape photographers, I initially believed that the key to great pictures was to travel to great locations. But I have eventually realised that this is a bit like trophy hunting. It is not hard to take stunning photographs of a Greenland fjord or the Atacama Desert. The real challenge is to SEE beauty in the ‘everyday’. To identify subjects that you might easily drive by without identifying the ‘bones’ of a good composition. And the commitment that is needed to capture it in the best possible quality.

I hope some of my images give you pleasure or reason to ponder.

Ron Langman AM

‘Bashams Sunrise’

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*Artwork images are examples of the artists work and may not currently be available. Please contact the gallery for more information.

‘Witches Cauldron, Knights Beach’

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*Artwork images are examples of the artists work and may not currently be available. Please contact the gallery for more information.