Chasing the Mountain Light

Photographs by:   David Neilson
Imprint:   Snowgum Press
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 325mm,  Width: 305mm,  Spine: 28mm
ISBN:   9780987298010
ISBN 10:   0987298011
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 October 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

David Neilson is the photographer and author of four books. South West Tasmania: A Land of the Wild highlighted the threatened wilderness of western Tasmania. Wilsons Promontory: Coastal Wildness celebrated the beauty of one of Australia's foremost national parks. Patagonia: Images of a Wild Land drew on his climbing expeditions to the southern Andes and his most recent book, Southern Light: Images from Antarctica, was the result of six journeys to the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. In 1990 and 2004 he received Antarctic Arts Fellowships from the Australian Antarctic Division that enabled him to spend two summers taking photos in the Antarctic from a base at Australia's Mawson Station. These photos were used in various books and also in the joint Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery and Museum of Victoria exhibition Antarctica: Secrets of the Frozen World. In 2021 he was one of four Antarctic Arts Fellows to be featured on a set of Australia Post stamps. He worked for the Australian Conservation Foundation for ten years as a graphic designer and pictorial editor producing books, wilderness diaries and calendars. His early working life was spent as a civil engineer. In recent years his photography has broadened to include film-making and in 2018 he made the documentary The Desperate Plight of the Orange-bellied Parrot about this critically endangered bird. He lives near Emerald, east of Melbourne, with his partner, Karen Alexander, and runs a photography and publishing business.