Thunder, from the Anthropocene series, makes an appearance in National Geographic’s May print issue to illustrate the story “The Living Planet”.
Monday, 23 April 2018
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
LIFE: AS WE’VE KNOWN IT
BEATY BIODIVERSITY MUSEUM
VANCOUVER, CANADA
VANCOUVER, CANADA
ARTIST RECEPTION: Thursday, April 19th, 6 – 830pm
On now – 18 artist prints from Life: As We’ve Known It appear in this exhibition at Vancouver’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Along with related installations (and an Instagram booth!) the entire series of 132 photographs will be displayed at their native 4×5 inch dimension.
If you’re in Vancouver for Thursday, April 19th please join us for the artist reception from 6 to 830pm.
PRESS RELEASE
“There is a distinct eeriness looking at an image from this series by David Ellingsen. The dark glow suspending each subject is as compelling as it is unnatural. How will these photographs be viewed by our descendants and what will remain of these species, or their human viewers? As our planet enters another mass extinction period, only the sixth in its 4.5 billion year history, the photographs in Life: As We’ve Known It respond to this anthropogenic event of unprecedented scale.”
See the complete series here.
Part of the 2018 Capture Photography Festival Open Program.
Thursday, 1 February 2018
Dodho Magazine
Monday, 22 January 2018
The Earth Issue
The Last Stand appears in The Earth Issue
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
Artist Reception and Q+A – tomorrow, January 11, 2018
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Private View: January 11th, 2018
The Hospital Club, 24 Endell St, London WC2H 9HQ
The Hospital Club presents The Baldwin Gallery’s Betwixt, exploring the organic and psychic transference between selves and species, featuring the shape-changing photography of David Ellingsen and Meryl McMaster.
Of indigenous and European descent, Plains Cree sculptural-photographer, McMaster, pits delimiting identities – Native American, Canadian, female, human – against the immediacy of her lived body in the natural world. She expresses heritage and contemporaneity as a synergistic strength of unities, rather than a struggle between opposites.
Ellingsen’s Anthropocene series is inspired by the proposed renaming of our geological epoch, as Earth’s systems are irrevocably altered by human activity. Transmuted skeletal remains, adrift on blackness, reference future and past and are both a warning and rendering of hope.
Both artists have shown in museums around the world, from The Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Canada, and the Datz Museum of Art, South Korea (Ellingsen), to the Smithsonian and the Art Gallery of Ontario (McMaster).
Monday, 1 January 2018
Weather Patterns 2017
Photographed the last day of another year yesterday and here is 2017, a new addition to Weather Patterns, an on-going visual diary of climate breakdown.
The years 2017, 2016 and 2015 make up the 3 hottest years on record for the planet. 2016 and 2015 were El Nino years and to have 2017, in which El Nino was absent, join the others in the top 3 illustrates the relentless pace of climate breakdown.
Also emerging in this work is evidence of the record-breaking forest fires here in the Pacific Northwest. Note the yellow cast to many of the photographs about two-thirds of the way down the work.
Last June an article appeared in The Guardian titled “World has three years left to stop dangerous climate change”. Reporting on a warning letter from prominent climate experts, this now gives us 2.5 years from this new year’s day. If we hope to still have a planet hospitable to life by the end of this century the time for action is now. There are solutions prepared and plans made to meet this challenge and we must demand that our representatives in government put them into action.
Sunday, 3 December 2017
Betwixt exhibition – The Baldwin Gallery at The Hospital Club
BETWIXT
Meryl McMaster & David Ellingsen
December 3rd – February 4th, 2017, by appointment
The Baldwin Gallery at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell St, London WC2H 9HQ
“The Hospital Club presents The Baldwin Gallery’s Betwixt, exploring the organic and psychic transference between selves and species, featuring the shape-changing photography of David Ellingsen and Meryl McMaster.
Of indigenous and European descent, Plains Cree sculptural-photographer, McMaster, pits delimiting identities – Native American, Canadian, female, human – against the immediacy of her lived body in the natural world. She expresses heritage and contemporaneity as a synergistic strength of unities, rather than a struggle between opposites.
Ellingsen’s Anthropocene series is inspired by the proposed renaming of our geological epoch, as Earth’s systems are irrevocably altered by human activity. Transmuted skeletal remains, adrift on blackness, reference future and past and are both a warning and rendering of hope.
Both artists have shown in museums around the world, from the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Canada, and the Datz Museum of Art, South Korea (Ellingsen), to the Smithsonian and the Art Gallery of Ontario (McMaster).”
– The Baldwin Gallery
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Remembrance Day for Lost Species
November 30 is Remembrance Day for Lost Species
Here’s a small collection of recent creature portraits, photographed in collaboration with the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, all in danger of joining the ranks of lost species.
Polar Bear, African Elephant, Kiwi, Boreal Chorus Frog, Caribou, Echidna, Mouse Deer, Snapping Turtle and the Pangolin (the most trafficked creature on the planet).
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Artists As Change Makers
“Hear how an internationally-renown filmmaker, photojournalist, singer/songwriter duo, and a fine art photographer are all creating change through their craft. Featuring striking imagery and insight into the power of art.” – Frances Litman, Creatively United Solutions
With Garth Lenz (photojournalist), Sarah Roberts (filmmaker), David Ellingsen (artist) and Danton Jay and Heather Lynn (musicians).
Solutions Episode 2: Artists As Change Makers
Shaw Cable, channel 4, November 6-12, 2017
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Blur Magazine, Croatia
