David B Simmonds (B Arts (Photog) RMIT, Accredited Member AIPP, M Photog II AIPP) & Sandra Curtis
David & Sandra are a husband and wife team with many years experience providing fine art photography services to corporate and private clients.
With David's award-winning photography skills and Sandra's design and production skills, we create beautiful bespoke pieces, consulting with you directly, and/or in creative collaboration with your interior architect or designer. We listen and work with you to gain an understanding of your company’s brand/personality, core values and what stories you want the images to tell. To discover what aesthetic and visual energy best suits your working and living spaces. It may be as simple as bringing beauty, serenity or inspiration into your environment.
We’ve worked for a long time with our trusted suppliers and printers, so you can be confident in us finding the right medium for your images in your space. All our work is printed, framed and mounted to the highest archival standards.
You can also purchase photographs from my large existing collection ranging over many themes (this will be added to the website soon, but please call or email if you'd like to know more meanwhile). You might also like to visit my fine art website. We look forward to being of service to you soon.
Regards, David & Sandra
(With thanks to our friend Andrew Campbell of The Melbourne Headshot Company for our portrait)
More About David
Chasing the ever-changing light and making beautiful images is why I get up every morning. I'm constantly inspired to show how much beauty there is around us in the world, and to reveal the extraordinary that lies hidden in the ordinary things of our surroundings and everyday lives, in our cities, the things that we build, and the wonders of nature.
I've been a professional photographer for over 30 years, have exhibited my work on many occasions, and have been fortunate to win my share of awards along the way. My limited edition fine art architectural calendar series "Melbourne In Spires" is in the collection of the State Library of Victoria, and my "Melbourne In Spires BIG Picture Exhibition" is in the collection of Museum Victoria. I have numerous works in the Fuji ACMP Collection of Australia's finest photographers, as well as in many people's homes and office spaces.
Work held in collections:
Museum of Victoria
Melbourne In Spires BIG Picture Collection
State Library of Victoria
Melbourne In Spires Limited Edition of Fine Art Architectural Calendars 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997
Corporate Collections
Fine art photographic works of architecture and the built environment
Silver Top Taxi Service, Federation Square, Heidelberg Australia, McLean Delmo, Fender Katsalidis Architects,
101 Collins Street, Pace (and others)
The Australian Photographer's Collections
Volumes 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
Various private collections
Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Finding Sacred Space in a Secular World (Clement Meadmore Gallery)
2011 Finding Sacred Space in a Secular World (Fringe Programme of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2011)
2004 Light, Line and Space (Federation Square)
1994 Melbourne In Spires BIG Picture Exhibition (1O1 Collins Street, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts)
1990 Sitting in the Dark (CUB Malthouse/Playbox Theatre)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2013 3rd China International Digital Photography Art Exhibition (Photography Museum of Lishui, China)
2013 The Last Pas de Deux / Layers and Shadows (Fringe Programme of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2013)
2011 Retrospective Photography Museum of Lishui, China
2010 1st China International Digital Photography Art Exhibition (Photography Museum of Lishui, China)
ACMP Collection Travelling Exhibition (works from The Australian Photographer's Collection)
AIPP Award Travelling Exhibition
Awards:
International Colour Awards - Honorable Mention
2013 Professional Architecture
International Colour Awards - Nominee
2013 Professional Architecture
2010 Professional Still Life
2009 Professional Architecture
2008 Professional Architecture
International Black and White Spider Awards - Nominee
2013 Professional Architecture (2 works)
2012 Professional Architecture
2011 Professional Architecture
1st International China Digital Photography Exhibition
2010 Silver Award
Australian Institute of Professional Photography
2000 Australian Commercial & Industrial Photographer of the Year
2000 Double Master of Photography
Victorian Institute of Professional Photography
2002 Highest scoring landscape print
2000 Victorian Commercial & Industrial Photographer of the Year
National Print Awards
2001 Gold & Silver Award