Rennie Ellis x Pass-Port
We featured the amazing Aussie photographer Rennie Ellis in issue #4 of the Bright Diaries - and now his estate/archive hooked up with Pass-Port for some great collaboration boards... here's the intro to our Diaries feature:
“Photography legitimizes my voyeuristic tendencies”: Capturing the hedonistic, pleasure-seeking excess of the 80s and 90s, photographer Rennie Ellis’s recent book “Decadent: 1980-2000” showcases an era that, at least from a present-day perspective, appears to be a different world altogether, incredibly hands-off and unrestricted. Obsessively documenting what he saw at the beach, in pubs, at events, or in Melbourne’s infamous nightclubs (e.g. Maxine’s, where he even had backstage access at all times), one can tell that Ellis (1940-2003), who has been welcomed to the White House and thrown out of the Moulin Rouge, was an extremely sociable, non-judgmental guy with a voyeuristic streak – a “good perv”, as William Yang describes him in the book. A mind-bending snapshot of the wild, indulgent, and skin-obsessed 80s and 90s in Australia, “Decadent: 1980-2000” is available via Hardie Grant Books.
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“Photography legitimizes my voyeuristic tendencies”: Capturing the hedonistic, pleasure-seeking excess of the 80s and 90s, photographer Rennie Ellis’s recent book “Decadent: 1980-2000” showcases an era that, at least from a present-day perspective, appears to be a different world altogether, incredibly hands-off and unrestricted. Obsessively documenting what he saw at the beach, in pubs, at events, or in Melbourne’s infamous nightclubs (e.g. Maxine’s, where he even had backstage access at all times), one can tell that Ellis (1940-2003), who has been welcomed to the White House and thrown out of the Moulin Rouge, was an extremely sociable, non-judgmental guy with a voyeuristic streak – a “good perv”, as William Yang describes him in the book. A mind-bending snapshot of the wild, indulgent, and skin-obsessed 80s and 90s in Australia, “Decadent: 1980-2000” is available via Hardie Grant Books.
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