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Helen Ennis

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Helen Ennis is one of Australia’s leading photography curators, historians and writers.

She joined the Department of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia in 1981 and was Curator of International and Australian Photography at the National Gallery of Australia from 1985-92. She has extensive experience as an independent curator and writer specializing in the area of Australian photographic practice.

Her curatorial projects include Mirror with a memory: Photographic portraiture in Australia ; a retrospective exhibition of Olive Cotton’s photographs ; and the two-part exhibition In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s-2000 . Her exhibition of the work of European émigré photographer Margaret Michaelis was shown at the National Gallery of Australia in 2005.

Helen’s publications include Olive Cotton , Man with a camera: Frank Hurley overseas , Intersections: Photography, history and the National Library of Australia and the award-winning biography Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography . Her book Photography and Australia was published by Reaktion, London, in 2007.

In 2007 she curated Reveries: Photography and Mortality for the National Portrait Gallery and in 2008 curated A Modern Vision: Charles Bayliss, Photographer, 1850-1897 for the National Library of Australia.

Helen is a certified valuer for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

She is currently Associate Professor, Art Theory, and Graduate Convenor, Research at the Australian National University School of Art

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Helen Ennis

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Books from Helen Ennis

Photography and Australia

Frank Hurley's Antarctica

Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography

Wolfgang Sievers. Helen Ennis

She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism

Miriam Stannage: Time Framed