The Photography of Jon Rendell

Memento Mori

In photography, death and decay serve as powerful, melancholic metaphors
for the passage of time, human transience,
and the fragile balance of nature.

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Jon Rendell was born into an auteur/photog family in Melbourne, Australia, in 1957 and grew up around cameras and film. He honed his craft under renowned photographer Athol Shmith at what is now Swinburne University (Prahran Campus, Melbourne). He was always captivated by shadows and finds himself hard -wired to focusing on the transitory, abstract shapes that come and go with the available light. For more of his photography in Scene4, check the Archives.

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