Based in Melbourne since 2001, Louis Porter is a creative and talented photographer who was born in England in 1977. His work has been exhibited in Australia, England , Canada and Austria. Since his arrival in Australia, he has traveled suburbs of greater Melbourne for new, the interesting and the strange photos he can capture. He carries his camera with him almost everywhere he goes and if the opportunity for capturing a good picture presented itself, he would be ready to capture it without any hesitation.
His photography is categorized as street photography. He has traveled from Altona to Hoppers Crossing and Deer Park to Thornbury. His Exhibition ‘Australian Colour’ presents a series of ink jet prints individually titled after the places they were shot at. Rather than staging a scene like many photographers do, Louis Porter finds his subject matter while exploring the streets. His shots are all done with film rather than using a digital camera. He explains that the film helps his capture a better colour quality that he loves in his photography. The film he uses is extremely sensitive to strong colour which helps him in the process as well. None of his images are digitally manipulated and the colour captured is in the photograph itself.
Louis Porter’s main aim in taking photographs is to capture the colour, thus most of his images are captures before afternoon and never at night. However, when asked if he would be interested in night photography, he responded that he would be looking into that aspect as well in the near future. His attitude to street photography is truly unique since most street photography out there is focused mainly on people and buildings rather than on colour itself.
Porter has described these works as “portraying familiar scenes that just
aren’t right”.
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