HENSON, Bill

About the Australian photographer, Bill HENSON (b. 1955 in Melbourne)

Bill HENSON's photographs are characterized by the recurring depiction of darkness. Light, twilight, and shadow are used as defining compositional devices in landscape photographs as well as in the depiction of people. Another theme is young people on the cusp of adulthood. Earlier works from the 1980s are often designed as diptychs or triptychs. In 1995 he represented Australia at the Venice Biennale.

Photo books by Bill HENSON

'Lux et Nox' (2002, 2011); 'Mnemosyne. Photographic Works 1974–2004' (2005); '1985' (2014); 'Sic Transit' (2020); 'The Light Fades But the Gods Remain' (2020)