David Ellingsen

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1969, David Ellingsen is originally from Cortes Island, a remote community of 1000 residents in Canada's Pacific Northwest. Raised on a small family farm surrounded by forest and ocean, his photography is rooted in this rural upbringing.

David holds a technical diploma in commercial photography and began his career at the age of 30 in the advertising and editorial fields, attracting client assignments that include the New York Times Magazine, Men's Health, People, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and agencies DDB and Grey Worldwide. Running concurrently, David's personal project-based exhibition photographs have been shown in over thirty solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the USA, Asia, and Europe and are part of the permanent collection of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and the Chinese Museum of Photography.

We are delighted to be debuting two images from David's latest series, Sea Life in our show,
IMPRINT :: 2011, opening Nov-19 to Dec-22, 2011 - Exhibition details

American EelWhiptail

ARTIST STATEMENT | Sea Life

"The creatures contained in this collection of photographs are not intended to be a concise record but rather a feeling…a fascination…a darkness. I return often to a “dark beauty” in my photographs and this portrayal of these denizens of the deep seems an accurate metaphor for our times. Using my very last supply of Polaroid’s beautifully flawed Type 55PN film, now extinct in itself, and drawing on the historical darkroom processes of Man Ray and the botanical studies of Karl Blossfeldt, I was compelled to create a response to the ongoing decline of the planet’s oceans."

Please inquire with the gallery on pricing & to view more images from this stunning new series.

VIEW COLLECTIONS by David Ellingsen:

UNTITLED

HIBERNUS

ENDURE

Print sales & artist inquiries can be directed to Diana Millar diana@luzgallery.com