Glenn Hunt

EQUUS: in celebration of the horse

Glenn Hunt began his career in the Adelaide HIlls in 1988 working for a small rural newspaper. His work experience since then includes National Geographic, The Australian and The Financial Review. His freelance career includes work for Goodweekend, The Bulletin and The Austraian
Magazine.

It was in 2000 that Mr Hunt retruned to Adelaide to focus on the worldwide documentation of horse culture, which ermains his major personal project to date. Among several photographic awards Mr Hunt has won the Australian Panorama Photographer of the Year Award and 1st Place in the International Photographer of the Year Awards in 2003. He currently lives and works in Brisbane, Australia.

Horses and riding have always been a way of life for Glenn Hunt. It was a childhood memory – his first viewing of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Black Stallion – however, that Hunt pinpoints as the moment he was struck by the visual spectacle of the horse as a two dimensional image. The film had a profound influence on what Hunt now calls his ‘developing an eye for the horse’.

 ‘Horses have always been an object of beauty and reverence for human beings. It’s a genetic connection that has passed from generation to generation’ is how Hunt explains our fascination with them and why they’ve been valorised in art since the first cave drawings.

Over the course of his 20 year career, Hunt also founded Oculi – a collective designed to bring together some of Australia’s most awarded and talented photographers. More recently, he has established Obscura Photos (www.obscuraphotos.com), an agency for photographers - a first of its kind in Australia – and has been steadily filling his books with a mix of new Australian talent and established award winners. In between projects and exhibitions of his work, Hunt has been engaged by several corporate clients and as a guest lecturer at universities across Australia.
Of his own accolades, Hunt has won the Australian Panorama photographer of the year award and 1st Place in the International Photographer of the Year Awards in 2003. He is a two time award winner of the Equestrian Silver Camera trophy (2001 & 2006).

Hunt is currently working on a follow up to Equus which will feature his latest collection of photographs from the King Abdul Aziz Race Track in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia which has seen him produce some of most stunning work to date. Featured in his new collection will also be L’Ardria - The Festival of Constantino and The Palio of Sienna in Italy and the Spanish Festival of St Joan.

Hunt’s full collection of images can be viewed at www.glennhunt.com.au

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