TALKING PICTURES Zac Bayly

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Zac Bayly is an Australian photographer, based between Melbourne and London. Contrasting intimate, naturally-lit portraiture with graphic, high-flash photography, his work explores the beauty and character of his subjects, often within wild surroundings. Typified by warmth, desire and subversion, his idiosyncratic style and intuitive approach often involves capturing portraits of friends and newly-discovered subjects in the natural world at dawn and dusk or at night, when landscapes are rendered otherworldly. His past experience as an interviewer contributes a sense of intimacy, curiosity and connection to his photographs. He has collaborated with publications and brands including AnOther, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Fantastic Man, JW Anderson, More Or Less and Versace, among others. Zac’s debut photography book Flash! was published by London’s DoBeDo Projects in 2024, with a second extended edition due for release in 2025. He is signed to DRIVE globally.

 

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