David Ellingsen - African Grey Parrot, Psittacus erithacus
The endangered African Grey Parrot, Psittacus erithacus
Investigating biodiversity loss and species decline, 'Life As We've Known It' is a long term project made in partnership with the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
David Ellingsen is a Canadian photo-based artist making work that centres biodiversity and raises questions around human relationship with the natural world. His work draws upon his family history, one often embedded within British Columbia’s troubled forest industry, and the photographs reflect on the impacts of extraction and consumption on the other-than-human inhabitants within past, present, and future eco-systems.
Exhibitions include China’s Lishui Museum of Art, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and Canada's Campbell River Museum. Ellingsen’s photographs are part of the permanent collections of South Korea's Datz Museum of Art, China's Photography Museum of Lishui, and Canada's Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Royal British Columbia Museum. They have appeared with National Geographic and Patagonia Books, joined Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50 and received First Place at the International Photography Awards.
Ellingsen lives in Victoria, on Canada’s Vancouver Island.
The endangered African Grey Parrot, Psittacus erithacus
Investigating biodiversity loss and species decline, 'Life As We've Known It' is a long term project made in partnership with the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
David Ellingsen is a Canadian photo-based artist making work that centres biodiversity and raises questions around human relationship with the natural world. His work draws upon his family history, one often embedded within British Columbia’s troubled forest industry, and the photographs reflect on the impacts of extraction and consumption on the other-than-human inhabitants within past, present, and future eco-systems.
Exhibitions include China’s Lishui Museum of Art, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and Canada's Campbell River Museum. Ellingsen’s photographs are part of the permanent collections of South Korea's Datz Museum of Art, China's Photography Museum of Lishui, and Canada's Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Royal British Columbia Museum. They have appeared with National Geographic and Patagonia Books, joined Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50 and received First Place at the International Photography Awards.
Ellingsen lives in Victoria, on Canada’s Vancouver Island.