Artists statement
Rennie Ellis was an award-winning photographer celebrated for his photographs of life and culture in Melbourne. Ellis struck fame in the 1980’s for his societal photography for high profile magazines. This put him in high demand by the rich and famous to record their flamboyant parties, and in turn he changed the course of social photography in Australia.
Ellis lived and worked in Stonnington with a home and studio in Prahran. In the 1970’s, he opened his own photographic gallery, Brummels Gallery, in South Yarra. Ellis’ work in Stonnington reads like an iconic historical archive of happenings and people, a recollection and celebration of human activity.
Mounting & framing
Framed, glazed
