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)


In '1985' Bill HENSON combines photographs of ancient Egypt, with Suburban Melbourne and creates an imaginary world. This series are imbued with a sense of unreality, as night falls and we begin to rely upon the heightening sensitivity of our other senses
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'Lux et Nox' by prominent photographer Bill HENSON includes photos of industrial no man's land, as well as androgynous youths drifting in the nocturnal tumult - painterly tableaux that continue the tradition of romantic painting in the post-industrial age
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'Mnemosyne' is the definitive midlife retrospective on Bill HENSON. It brings together all groups of work he created until this volume: from his early ballet images to his children wandering in the wilderness of the night, here shown for the first time.
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For photo book 'The light fades but the gods remain' Bill HENSON returns to his home, to the same dead-end streets. The new images are lush and sumptuous in their grandeur, offering a glimpse of what is just down the road, but seems to be from another age
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