On completion of a BA in Art History at the University of Melbourne, Anita travelled overseas then went on to do a Bachelor of Arts in Commercial Photography at RMIT. Since then she has worked as a freelance commercial photographer with a parallel arts practice.

 Anita uses a medium format camera, a Mamiya twin lens c330 with 120 roll film, employing available light. The negatives are scanned, and the images then printed on to archival cotton rag. Analogue photographic techniques are employed to obtain detail and quality and then realised in a painterly manner though the size of the print and the quality of the paper.

 “I am looking to find peace and inspiration by being in the natural environment. I hope to convey the calm I feel through my subject matter in my images. Finding solitude, inspiration and abstraction in nature.”

 Anita is based in Geelong, near The Great Ocean Rd in Victoria. She works in portraiture, fashion, still life and landscape. Her primary clients include Rip Curl Australia, Ena Pelly and XTM Mountain Wear. Past clients include Australia Post, Australian Women’s Weekly, Craft Victoria, Delicious Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, The Age (Good Weekend, Melbourne Magazine and Sunday Life), The City of Greater Geelong, Marie Clare, Monument, Photofile, Qantas Magazine and Who Weekly.

Twice short-listed for the National Photographic Portrait Prize, Anita’s work seeks out the complexity of the human form and the simplicity of the natural one.