Louis Porter was born in the north of England in 1977 and has been based in Melbourne, Australia since 2001. His work has been exhibited in Australia, England, Canada, Austria and China. He regularly undertakes editorial commissions and has been featured in ; Monocle , ADbusters , GEO , Trace , The Age , The Monthly and The Big Issue amongst others.
"..Porter photographs suburbia like an antipodean David Lynch.." - Ashley Crawford , The Age
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2009 Record and Analysis - City Gallery, Melbourne (Australia)
2009 Australian Colour - Monash Gallery of Art (Australia)
2009 Cheap Flights - Centre for Contemporary Photography (Australia)
2005 Faith and Charity - Start Gallery , Melbourne (Australia)
Group
2009 Wires at Night, Kazari Gallery, Melbourne (Australia)
2008 Interior-External, 3space3 Gallery, Beijing (China)
2008 Finalist Olive Cotton Award, Tweed Shire Gallery (Australia)
2007 Tribal Living - IndexG Gallery, Toronto (Canada)
2007 Finalist , Ulrich and Win Schubert Photograpic Award - Gold Coast Art Gallery (Australia)
2006 Unnatural Selection - Darwin Museum and Art Gallery (UK)
2006 Australian Suburbia - House of Architecture , Graz (Austria)
2005 Suburban Picnic - Uber Gallery , Melbourne (Australia)
2005 Finalist, Ulrich and Win Schubert Photographic Award - Gold Coast Art Gallery (Australia)
Books
2009 100 Flowers - LozenUP publishing (Paris)
2009 Collector's Guide to Emerging Art Photography - Humble Arts Foundation (New York)
Awards and grants
2008 Australia-China Council residency - (Beijing)
2007 Nominated for PDN (Photo District News) top 30 photographers list (New York)
2005 Artist Development Grant - City of Yarra (Australia)
2004 Winner , Nikon Colour Award- Centre for Contemporary Photography , Melbourne (Australia)
Selected Bibliography
2009 Untangled, The Age, Penny Modra
2009 Escalators, PiePaper (New Zealand)
2009 Around the Galleries The Age by Dan Rule
2009 Wish you Were Here, The Big Issue by Michael Green (Australia)
2009 Wires at Night, DE:Bug magazine (Germany)
2008 Central Buissness Dreaming, City of Melbourne publishing ( Australia)
2008 I Love China So Do You , WON magazine issue 4 (Australia)
2007 The Lost Emperors - The Big Issue by Melissa Craneburgh (Australia)
2007 Photo profile - GEO magazine (Germany)
2007 Interview - Nothing Mag by Jason Lingard (Australia)
2006 Back to School - photo set ADbusters (Canada)
2006 Call Connect photo set - TRACE magazine (US)
2005 Strange Seduction of Suburbia - The Age , by Ashley Crawford (Australia)
2005 Suburban picnic review, Meagan Backhouse, The Age (Australia)
2005 Fun - photo set, Spinach7 magazine, Marni Cordell (Australia)
2004 Interview , Sunday Arts ABC Television (Australia)
Selected Clients
Australian Volunteers International - Monocle magazine - The Age newspaper - Reconcilliation Victoria
The Monthly - City of Melbourne council - Champions racing museum - Overland magazine - The Australia council - City of Port Philip council - Round Design - ARTplay - Cultural Development Network - Greek Gourmet Travelar - AUSAID international.