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NEIL DUNCAN PHOTOGRAPHY
About Neil Duncan
![[ Image: Self-portrait of Neil Duncan, reflected in the window of the woman he was photographing ]](img/duncan.jpg "Neil Duncan: self-portrait")
Neil Duncan has been a professional photographer for over 30 years. He has worked in London and New York as well in his native Australia, where he was a press photographer for The Australian for twelve years. Based in Balmain, Sydney, Neil now specialises exclusively in location photography for a range of corporate and industrial clients, who have flown him as far afield as France, Italy, Austria, the UK, Vietnam, Tahiti and Singapore to capture images for them.
His eye for composition, location lighting skills and ability to strike an easy rapport with his subjects results in the highest quality imagery. Whether a sweeping shot of one of the world’s largest mines, or an up-close-and-personal portrait of one of the men who make it run, Neil’s photographs always tell the story. He’s just as happy shooting from a chopper, or the bridge of an oil tanker at sea, as he is to be half a mile underground. He is, quite simply, at home on the road.
A partial client list includes Brambles, the Patrick Corporation, Macquarie Goodman, ADI, Beach Petroleum, Adsteam, Deloittes, Tenix, Transfield, BOC, Elders, Leightons and Macquarie Bank.
Neil can deliver the goods either on film, from 35mm to 6x17cm panoramic format, or by digital capture. He has travelled extensively throughout Australia and SE Asia, as well as Europe and the rest of the world, to produce stock photography of the highest calibre. His stock collection is held by photolibrary.com.
On 11 November 1975, Neil was there – with his camera – on the steps of Old Parliament House in Canberra, when Gough Whitlam’s Labor Government was dismissed by Governor-General John Kerr. In July 1981 he was one of only 15 photographers invited inside St Pauls Cathedral to shoot the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.
During his long career as a press photographer, he photographed Jack Nicholson, Bette Davis, Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev, Pierre Cardin, Joe Cocker, Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones, Donovan and Jesse Norman. In September 1978 he photographed a book, The People’s Pope, the story of the election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II, in Poland.
A selection of Neil’s photographs are available for sale as fine art prints at the Josef Lebovic Gallery, and have included in collections at Michael Nagy Fine Art, both in Sydney. His work is represented in the Australian Parliamentary Collection.
If he’s not halfway around the world on assignment, you’ll most likely find Neil cruising Sydney Harbour in his lovingly restored 10 metre classic timber sloop Karie.